Why is it so hard to sync two pcs to one pda?

Posted by captmikey on January 18, 2007, 2:29 pm

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My Dell X51v syncs like a charm to my personal laptop at home. When I
first got the pda, this was the first machine to see it. So it works
great. OTH, I bring my pda to work hoping to make use of it, and
while I can sync outlook OK, nothing else really works in the way of
software, and I can't "explore" the pda from my desktop either.

I have tried several versions of active-sync, currently using
v.4.5beta on both laptop and desktop. Prior to using v.4.5b on the
desktop, it just wouldn't sync period with the desktop on any
application.

Is there any way to prompt the PC to give me some error codes or
whatever to let me know what is causing the bottleneck? BTW the Dell
pda is ROM A12, upgraded that last week.

Posted by Paul G. Tobey [eMVP] on January 18, 2007, 2:36 pm

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The primary cause of problems is firewalls. You probably have some sort of
firewall running at work that you don't at home. If it's a non-Microsoft
firewall, it could be an old version, a product that the ActiveSync
installer didn't know about, or something that you installed after AS. If
it's blocking some or all of the network ports that AS uses, sure, things
won't work. It has nothing to do with how many PCs you are trying to sync
to.

Other things that it could be: virtual private networking software, virus
scanner/blocker, script blocker, you aren't logged in as an administrator on
the work PC, etc.

Paul T.

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