VMWare and Connecting to PPC WM6

[aidanbree]

I have quite a complex issue that I am trying to get round.

I am currently in an office using a company supplied laptop. To the connect to the company network I have to dial up using their broadband connection and VPN (Checkpoint). When this happens I am unable to access the local network and the regular network - split tunnelling is disabled (and quite correctly).

The web filtering in the company is very restrictive and I would therefore like to circumvent this using my PPC.

I had thought the best way to approach this would be to install XP on a virtual machine (using VMWare server) and bridge the connection between the WM network device and the XP client. Unfortunately, this doesnt work as checkpoint seems too clever for it.

My next thoughts were to map the USB port (with the WM6 Hermes attached) to the VM and connect using networking direct to the XP client (hoping this wouldn't disconnect when connected to the VPN).

Unfortunately the Hermes doesn't seem to be a mappable device under vmware as it doesn't show as a USB device in VMWare Server.

Has anyone got any good ideas?

I realise this probably falls into the 'stupid' post category.....I appologise now!

Cheers

Aidan

[saadakhtar]

hi,
As far as i understand you are trying to connect your wm6 based device to your virtual windows environment.
there are a few things you will have to do for that:

1). You will need to have the host OS to recognize the device as a usb activesync or usb wireless modem (if using to dial to your subscriber)
2). In vmware server administrative console in virtual environment properties make sure you have the usb device added as a sync or modem.

try the above mentioned steps and see if it helps.

cheers