Comments on: Using a Hosts File on Windows Mobile

By: nutz

nutz — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:15:17 +0000

can you post up a cab file for those of us downloading from our phones?
thank you..

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Разрешение имен в Windows Mobile « Управление мобильными устройствами — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:59:18 +0000

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By: Andreas

Andreas — Fri, 28 May 2010 06:40:51 +0000

I have tested this on an emulator myself, and it should work. The only prerequisite is that the emulator either has a network card, or phone “hardware” so the WM Classic emulator without network card might not work. (Don’t know how it would behave under those conditions.)
The nullpointer exception is a very generic one so it’s hard to say what’s causing it. I am assuming that you have entered a full fqdn – http://www.contoso.com and a valid IP address? (If you were to use invalid IP addresses that might throw an error like this.)

By: Court

Court — Wed, 26 May 2010 18:43:17 +0000

I am trying to use this utility with WM 6.1 Emulator but recieve the error when I press the Add Host button:
System.Null ReferenceException:NullReferenceException at

When I go to the Edit Host menu and press refresh I get a differnet error to quit the program. Will this utility work in a WM 6.1 emulator?

By: Andreas

Andreas — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 10:30:17 +0000

The format for entering new host names is http://www.domain.com – where the www part can be anything as long as you have a fully qualified domain name xxx.yyy.zzz.

No idea why it wouldn’t work if you enter it like this. (I am assuming you have checked already that there is network connectivity.)

If it still doesn’t work let me know which device and OS version you’re running.

By: Mark Henderson

Mark Henderson — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 09:04:22 +0000

Hi Andreas,

This little app shows great potential for what I want to do, but I can’t get it to work..

I want to debug a web service that my PDA calls and on the wireless network have it hit my development PC instead of call out to the internet..

I have added an entry of both mydomain.com and http://mydomain.com as mentioned in the comments above and I can never hit my domain should be 192.168.8.9 for my PC..

When I try to access it through Opera Mobile it instantly says ‘error’ before I even hit the go button to make the request (to the domain no the webservice).

Am I doing something wrong or is there any thing you’d suggest I try..

Thanks,

Mark

By: Andreas

Andreas — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:08:52 +0000

I’m pretty sure I’ve run this on WM 6.1 Standard as well. And there’s no reason it shouldn’t work on WM 6.1. What kind of error are you getting? Is it when starting the app, or when using it the error occurs?

By: Mobile Device Manager Resources | System Center Ideas

Mobile Device Manager Resources | System Center Ideas — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:37:31 +0000

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By: Ilau

Ilau — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:53:14 +0000

not sure this track is still active. I downloaded the hostfileedit tool posted nov 8th, the pro version works great on PDA running WM6.1, thank you. Unfortunately, I get error when using the hostsfileditstd.exe for WM6.1 standard device. Anyone has a version that will work? thanks

By: Andreas

Andreas — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:39:59 +0000

If I remember correctly Windows Mobile isn’t to happy about using just the host name instead of the fqdn. So for instance www would fail, but http://www.domain.com would be ok. This being because your device always tries to do DNS lookups, and not WINS.

The fix (at least if you’re running SCMDM) is to set the following registry keys:
HKLM\Comm\AFD\NameResolutionordering to 4, and
HKLM\Comm\MSEC\IPSECVPNVNIC1\Parms\TcpIp\Domain to the domain suffix.

I haven’t tested this so I can’t be sure, and that second registry might look a little different if you’re not running SCMDM.