On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 14:39 +0000, Philip Aston wrote: > On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 06:28 +0100, David Eriksson wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 01:09 +0000, philip aston wrote: > > > At last, synchronized with evolution- thanks Mark, this was impossible > > > without your assistance, especially the need for only a selection of > > > sync software from testing, avoiding opensync and raki, getting odccm > > > from unstable- finally an unexpected tweak to first evolution then > > > multisync did the job. I think I ought to produce a "howto" because this > > > process is not intuitive and the instructions aren't really accessible > > > to a beginner or perhaps even an intermediate Linux user. I'll post the > > > link when I have a draft. > > > > Please do! Maybe you'd like to write it on the synce.org wiki? > > > > > One thing- is it necessary to run synce-serial-start from root? If the > > > user isn't the administrator this will be a problem.-Phil > > > > Synce-serial is just bunch of scripts around pppd, so if you can run > > make pppd run on /dev/ttyUSB0 without being root things should work. > > > > \David
In the synce-serial README is some guidance on how to automate the serial link. > > Will do. I'll check pppd. Another issue I haven't tried to overcome is > file exchange; sd card is fine for me, although a windows user would > probably expect something like activesync (as I now know raki isn't > working, and there were problems with rapi). Is there a command to set > up file access?-Phil > Rapi is ok as far as I know, there is a standalone version in svn now. Or gnomevfs if you want to use nautilus. There is also something called FUR (i think, fuse using rapi ?, cant remember), to actually mount the device as a filesystem. Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ SynCE-Devel mailing list SynCE-Devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/synce-devel
