HOW TO: Send a file from PDA to a computer on LAN

[Guest]

hello

i am trying to move a file programmatically from PDA to a computer on
LAN. for example when i connect my PDA to my pc A and when i start my
application on pda and press send then a file from my pda should transfer on
pc B which is on LAN.

Any help, suggestion, comments will be highly appreciate.

Regards,

 

[Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]]

That's going to depend on what the PC on the LAN supports. There's no
wide-open hole through which you could push a file to a random PC on a
random network (think about how a virus writer might use that). Is the PC
sharing any folders which the PDA might be able to access for writing? Is
the PC running a Web or FTP server?

Paul T.

 

[Guest]

Hello Paul

yes there is a shared folder where PDA will send the file.

waiting for your kind & quick response.

regards,
Adnan

 

[SwissPinoy]

I'm having problems with a similar situation. With CE4.1, I'm trying
to get a filestream on a file which is on a win2003 server using
OpenNETCF.Net.Network.MapDrive, but it's not working yet.

http://www.opennetcf.org/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=7657

 

[Dexlex]

When you are already connected to your LAN via WLAN or ActiveSync, why not
just write a file on the shared folder?

file.Open(@"\\PC_B\Share\myfile.dat")

Dex

 

[Guest]

Dear Dexlen Thanx for your concern but it's not allowed i think, i have
checked through

Dim bExist As Boolean = System.IO.Directory.Exists("\\MyPC\PDAShared")

and i got false, where i can access this by typing in my run command

any help, suggestion, code will be great helpfull.

regards,
adnan

 

[Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]]

You may need to map it. This can be done with the WNetXXX API calls. I
don't know if there's a wrapper, but you can certainly search the old
messages in the group with GoogleGroups:

http://groups.google.com/group/micr...tframework?hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

Alternatively, you could use the "net.exe" program to do the mapping,
depending on what type of device you are targeting. This would create a new
folder in \Network which represents the remote folder. Writing any file to
that folder would put it on the remote device.

Paul T.