Howdy --

I've got a user who's trying to network hotsync his brand new Visor
Deluxe, and no matter what we do to it, we cannot get his local PC's
HotSync Manager to recognize that a *network*, not local, sync has been
requested.

His Visor is running PalmOS 3.1H3. His Visor's HotSync app clearly
understands network hotsyncing because it has the usual menu items for
"LANSync Prefs" and "Primary PC Setup". The Visor's cradle is serially
cabled to the local PC.  His local PC has Palm Desktop 3.0.2 installed
(right out of the Visor box). He can sync locally just fine, but when he
changes LANSync Prefs from Local to Network and enters the DNS name, IP
address, and subnet mask of the remote PC (also running HotSync Manager
which many other users are able to network sync against) into Primary PC
Setup, then initiates a local sync, the local HotSync Manager simply
runs a local sync. It never says "Forwarding to ". Furthermore, when
it's finished doing the local sync, the Primary PC Setup parameters on
the Visor have reverted to the name and address of the *local* PC! And,
about 50% of the time, after the sync is finished, HotSync Manager has
re-checked the (formerly unchecked) box besides the user's name in the
Setup, Network dialogbox.

We tried uninstalling Palm Desktop, rebooting, and re-installing, but it
made no difference. We also checked that the remote PC is reachable from
the local PC, and a ping works fine. And, yes, we absolutely confirmed
that HotSync Manager is actively running on the remote PC. As I said,
other users are network-syncing against this remote PC without any
problem.

Anybody have any ideas about what's preventing HotSync Manager on this
local PC from recognizing and forwarding a network hotsync request from
the handheld?  I can't even tell whether this is a software problem on
the Visor or a software problem on the desktop?  Is there something
about how Handspring tweaked PalmOS for the Visor that prevents it from
doing a netsync?  Did Handspring tweak HotSync Manager to prevent it
from doing a netsync?  Is there some magic registry entry that I should
be checking?

I spent an hour scanning the palmos.com knowledge base and couldn't find
anything that helped. And the handspring web site is worse than useless
for technical support.

Thanks for any help you can provide!

-- Larry Afrin
   Med. Univ. of S.C.
   [EMAIL PROTECTED]



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