Arun,

Thanks for the links....is there anything in CF to do this?  These look like
CE functions - any managed code for this or wrapped code?

Guess I really just need to see if the printer is available - it'd look like
a network printer weith IP.

thanks
Harry
Harry,
Send an simple ICMP request to find out the printer is available for
communication.
You can use IcmpSendEcho
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms927415.aspx

I think OpenNetCF also does the same.
Refer here too
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.compactframewor
k/browse_thread/thread/273197f519fafb47/dc3234d9d6774388?lnk=gst&q=IcmpSendEcho#
dc3234d9d6774388

ICMP will not work with ActiveSync, and if you want to validate with
IPAddress and a port number, try with this code

public static bool IsConnectionEstablished(IPAddress ipAddress, int
port)
       {
           bool connectStatus = false;
           Socket m_ClientSocket = null;
           try
           {
               IPEndPoint ipEndPoint = new IPEndPoint(ipAddress,
port);
               m_ClientSocket = new
Socket(AddressFamily.InterNetwork, SocketType.Stream,
ProtocolType.Tcp);
               m_ClientSocket.Connect(ipEndPoint);

               connectStatus = m_ClientSocket.Connected;
           }
           return connectStatus;
       }

Hope this helps,
Cheers,
Arun.

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