O2 XDA - wireless 'linkup' experiment! Help?

[Broon]

Hi,

I was just wondering if its possible to 'link' the XDA Exec with multiple Laptops so that the laptops all show the XDA's display? Lets assume all Laptops have wi-fi, bluetooth and run Windows XP.

Purposes may be to share a PP presentation, show a software demo etc. (I need to give a tutorial and demo in a room with no projector :oops:).

I was curious if anyone has had any experiance with this? Any advice regarding the best setup (or software) would be great. Cheers.

[Broon]

Nobody any ideas whatsoever?

[jwhitham]

You could install windows media encoder on one of the laptops, and a remote control app. Then run the remote control app so you can see your phone's screen. Once that's working you can run windows media encoder in screen caputre mode, all the other laptops will be able to connect it it then.

[IMate->WM2k5]

Nobody any ideas whatsoever?
You can play with Microsoft's "ActiveSync Remote Display". The tool allows you to work with your PPC remotely from your laptop/PC using ActiveSync connection. But you will need to install ActiveSync and this tool to every laptop :(

If it is a matter of presentation, why don't you copy your presentation to local server's shared folder and ask people to open the file from this folder and listen to your instructions, like Going to next slide... ;) At least there won't be any hassle with intervention to participants' laptops and personal space ;)))

ps: if you do possess a PC you can run something like MS Netmeeting and establish AS connection with your PDA through AS Remote Display at your PC. Share AS Remote Display application and ask people to connect to your PC's NetMeeting or any other remote conference software

Let us know on your results

Cheers

[Broon]

If it is a matter of presentation, why don't you copy your presentation to local server's shared folder and ask people to open the file from this folder and listen to your instructions, like Going to next slide... ;) At least there won't be any hassle with intervention to participants' laptops and personal space ;)))

Thats my last resort - I hate doing presentations like this especially when we have the technology to do something 'fancy' :lol:

I will give some feedback to let you know how I managed it (I will succeed)!

[Broon]

Cheers for the ideas!

[Broon]

You can play with Microsoft's "ActiveSync Remote Display". The tool allows you to work with your PPC remotely from your laptop/PC using ActiveSync connection. But you will need to install ActiveSync and this tool to every laptop :(

I just had a look at AS Remote Display and it seemed this would do the trick - However, it does not work with Windows Mobile 5.0.

Does anyone know of a release of AS Remote Display for Windows Mobile 5? I had a look around but there does not seem to be much on offer which is compliant with 5.0.

[Broon]

Right, another problem.

I just installed an app called : Laplink Controller thinking as it offered the functionality I was looking for.

After a supposidly successful install I tried to run it - no joy. It reccommended I uninstall and re-install the software, so I did.

When re-installing I got a message saying:

Cannot load resouce library:

\Windows\MWRes???412L.dll

It now comes up everytime I do a soft reset. Anybody seen this error?