Getting the 6700, Orb and Pocket Player to jive?

[UTSAFTW]

A heads up to the mods... this may be better off in the software section, but since my goal is getting this to work on the 6700, I figured it would be better here.

Last month, Conduits released the latest version of Pocket Player in addition to an Orb plugin. I tried both of those when initially tied to activesync and also through wi-fi. Pocket Player worked extremely well with Orb and blew my socks off (or rather, had kept me up trying to work over Ev-DO until 11:00 AM or so... luckily tonight it will only be ~5:15 AM) compared to how much a pain it is to use Orb via PIE to find the proper music and play it. See the screens below:


It showed up right away via Wi-Fi which was nice.


When I selected "Network", this came up. I selected "Music" and then my "BT Discography" folder I have shared.


I selected the "Movement in Still Life" album by BT.


I selected the first track.


As you can tell, the music within the folder got queued up and I was able to jump between the various songs and even jump around in the song as a I pleased. It seemed so localized! I can even que tracks, remove tracks and sort the playlist around I pleased. It was a quite a leap from using something such as WMP where jumping around songs was buggy and having to use PIE to find the music I wanted and play it.

Having learned that it would not work outside of the local area, I become inspired by this post on the idea to setup and use a VPN:

http://www.conduits.com/community/fo...TID=888&KW=VPN

After learning a bit about VPNs, I set one up using Windows XP's own VPN server, but that was a flop. I did run into something interesting when using Resco Explorer in an attempt to see if even a network share would work:


Some of them had the WM prefix, so I assume that somehow I had stumbled into a place where I should have not been. I was not able to access any network shares (if there were any) from the other "Computers Near Me". I can reproduce this bug/security problem of sorts, but will not attempt to follow through since it is pointless to my own needs.

Now I am currently trying to get OpenVPN ( http://openvpn.net ) to play nice with a port to WM5 over at ( http://ovpnppc.ziggurat29.com/ovpnppc-main.htm ). I assume it to be my phone that is the problem and have been wanting to hard reset my device, so now I have an excuse I cannot pass up. One of my issues seems to be ActiveSync (although this is an issue with XP's VPN server, but I am not sure if AS affects OpenVPN, but I would rather not take chances).

Using OpenVPN, I believe that "bridging" versus "routing" is the way to go since bridging apparently allows for file shares to be accessed (even if I don't get pocket music to work with orb, I can still access my gigs and gigs of data at home while out and about).

Any ideas on this one? Has anybody here ever used OpenVPN? And is there something out there to make Orb be this accessible?

Oh, and if I don't make sense in parts of my post, then I blame it on my tiredness.

[schettj]

not exactly an answer, but orb2.0 works a whole lot better in pie then orb ever did. Are you running orb2.0?

More on topic, you might want to try pocketputty to set up ssh port forwarding to gain access to your windows mobile shares instead of a vpn solution - it could work.

http://www.bitvise.com/file-sharing

http://www.blisstonia.com/eolson/notes/smboverssh.php

http://www.pocketputty.net/

[UTSAFTW]

Hmm, well, I did figure out how to get OpenVPN to work (I did a hard reset) and despite a few hiccups that occur in the first 10-15 seconds, it works great.

Indeed Orb 2.0 is greatly improved over the first version than Orb. Both Orb 2.0 via PIE or Pocket Music have their ups and downs, but with this, I can easily jump through to the song I want. It is at least twice as fast to start playing music (not including loading up mycast.orb.com and then logging in) since there is no need to login with the Pocket Music version.

schettj - I may still look into running pocket putty, but for now I am quite pleased with OpenVPN.

Overall, I'd say that to me for jumping around the music I have in Orb, this is quite a bit faster.