On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 12:04 +0200, Guido Diepen wrote: > Hi, > > one recurring problem we encounter frequently is that people have problems > with SynCE, it is not working for them and often it turns out that they > have a firewall running. Currently this means that they have to find this > information on some forum, or that they have to find this by asking > questions on the mailing list or IRC channel.
On Mandriva they can run the firewall configuration tool and click the special box for synchronizing with Windows Mobile devices. :) > Unfortunately I am not very familiar with all the details of how synce-hal > works, but would the following extension be possible (and if so, would you > guys think it would be useful). > > When synce-hal detects a new device, it sets up the interface via DHCP, > after which it sends the UDP packet to the device which will have the > device initiate all subsequent connections. I'm not sure that would really work. There has been some discussion on Fedora's development lists recently about some kind of 'firewallkit' which would allow (trusted packaged, obviously) applications to open some firewall holes on installation in some way, but it seems to have petered out, and it may not be applicable to all distros even if written (I think the end of the discussion was focussing on ways to do it via SELinux). In the absence of that, better documentation is probably all we can do :/ What would be nice is a firewalling system that's smart enough not to apply the firewall to an rndis0 interface when the connected device is a Windows Mobile phone in ActiveSync mode (this is in fact all information that's available to the system). That might be a complex patch to write, though. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ SynCE-Devel mailing list SynCE-Devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/synce-devel
