Hi, everyone.

   That's my environment:
   - I have a pocket pc (iPAQ h4350) application developed with
VSNET2003/C# that has a SQL Server CE Database, running. That's working
fine. Obs: the pocket is NOT supposed to have a wireless conection
available.
   - I have an access database on a standalone desktop running Windows XP,
i.e., there is NO guaranteed network connection available.
   - I've developed a webservice with VSNET2003/C# too to do some data
synchronizing. That's a bunch of webmethods that receive a table name and
returns a dataset to pocket, OR receive a dataset and insert its records
into the corresponding table at the access database. They are running at my
desktop over an IIS 5.0 server, with .Net Framework 1.1 already installed.

   Well, here's the problem: ok, when I have a internet connection
available on my desktop, the activesync (3.7.1 OR 3.8, whatever) enables the
pass through feature when the device is placed in the cradle, and from my
application or even from the pocket Internet Explorer i CAN reach my
webservice, or any other page/web application that my IIS provides. But, if
there is no network connection available on the desktop, activesync
teorically just does not provides the pass through, EVEN IF the "address"
requested is the desktop host's name. Or localhost, or 127.0.0.1, or
anyother name I can even define, e.g., at hosts or lmhosts file
(system32\drivers\etc\).

   Am I nuts? Or there is a way to make this work?
   I just wanted the damn pocket, or the activesync, to be able to resolve
a local address for the pocket when he is connected to my desktop, which IS
in fact acting as a web server.

   If that's an enforced rule of activesync - it WILL NOT receive and "pass
through" the request from pocket, even if that's a local address on a
desktop's web server -, is that right?? It should enable pass through
anyway, I think!! After all, I of course am able to open an Internet
Explorer instance on my desktop, and call my webservice normally. And works
when I'm still testing on my PPC emulator.

Please! Need some light here!

Thanks in advance.
Daniel.

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