Thursday, September 12, 2002
Pocket Hosts for your Pocket PC
Posted by Ed Hansberry in "SOFTWARE" @ 12:00 PM
http://www.zimac.de/cestuff.htm
This is a great little freeware application that does one thing and does it well. "[It] allows you to edit the static host name to IP address mappings on a Pocket PC. This is the handheld equivalent of writing a HOSTS file on your desktop PC."
It is 39K in size, free and works on all Pocket PC and Handheld PC devices. It's author, Marc Zimmermann is a Microsoft MVP for mobile devices. You have probably seen him in the various Pocket PC newsgroups. This little app has saved my bacon recently. For some reason, I cannot get my Pocket PC to see my Exchange server using the machine name when logged into the network via VPN. Connection Manager on the Pocket PC won't let me VPN in with an IP address in Inbox either - it thinks that is Internet. No doubt something in the DNS or WINS or other TCP/IP thingy I have misconfigured on the Win2K network, but the WinXP/2K machines can do it and I'm sick of fooling with it. Well, with Pocket Hosts, I put in the machine name in Inbox, tell Pocket Hosts to map it to the internal IP address, VPN connects and boom! Email. Now I don't have to RAS in to check my email with my Pocket PC.
This is a great little freeware application that does one thing and does it well. "[It] allows you to edit the static host name to IP address mappings on a Pocket PC. This is the handheld equivalent of writing a HOSTS file on your desktop PC."
It is 39K in size, free and works on all Pocket PC and Handheld PC devices. It's author, Marc Zimmermann is a Microsoft MVP for mobile devices. You have probably seen him in the various Pocket PC newsgroups. This little app has saved my bacon recently. For some reason, I cannot get my Pocket PC to see my Exchange server using the machine name when logged into the network via VPN. Connection Manager on the Pocket PC won't let me VPN in with an IP address in Inbox either - it thinks that is Internet. No doubt something in the DNS or WINS or other TCP/IP thingy I have misconfigured on the Win2K network, but the WinXP/2K machines can do it and I'm sick of fooling with it. Well, with Pocket Hosts, I put in the machine name in Inbox, tell Pocket Hosts to map it to the internal IP address, VPN connects and boom! Email. Now I don't have to RAS in to check my email with my Pocket PC.
