can't run xlobby2sd.exe on my IPAQ

by **owain_thomas** on Thu May 12, 2005 6:23 pm

Hi,

I'm having one of the most frustrating days I've had with a PC for a long time :twisted:

Today I bought a wireless router to start trying to integrate my PPC with the amazing xlobby interface. Finally got the IPAQ connecting to the router and browsing the internet (after much random trying of different options !)

Any way my problem now seems to be that even though I managed to install .net compact on my ipaq I can't seem to run xlobby2sd.exe, when I try to it says: "xlobby2sd.exe is not a valid pocket pc application"

Am I doing this right? is xlobby2sd meant to be run on an ipaq?

thanks in advance
owain

by **rhinoman** on Thu May 12, 2005 7:34 pm

Are you sure the .net is installed properly, I once managed to install just a service pack and ended up with that message.

I have an ipaq as well as my axims and it runs fine.

by **stevenhanna6** on Fri May 13, 2005 3:07 am

just to make it a little more clear, you need the .NET Compact Framework for your pocket pc.

by **hjackson** on Fri May 13, 2005 8:33 am

This is a common problem. .NET is ALREADY installed on the newer PPC OS, so uninstall the .NET you had downloaded.

hjackson

by **owain_thomas** on Fri May 13, 2005 12:39 pm

thanks for all the replies, unfortunately I still can't get it working. I have and HP IPAQ h4100. I have tried using the installer linked to in the original instructions (SP2), the newer SP3 version (both of these are the full installers as far as I can work out, not just SPs) and tried removing it alltogether using "remove programs". Still no joy, I still get it telling me that xlobbysd2.exe is not a valid pocket pc application :cry:

Any other suggestions?

thanks
owain

by **hjackson** on Fri May 13, 2005 2:25 pm

Hmmmm. Is this the first time you've set up a client for Xlobby?
Which files did you transfer over to the Ipaq?
Did you go into the setup and click the "start server" button?
When you do/did that, is the address in the IP server status box, the same as the one you entered in your Ipaq's server.txt file?
Please print the your "servers.txt" file setup.

hjackson

by **owain_thomas** on Sat May 14, 2005 12:28 pm

thanks again for the replies.

Is this the first time you've set up a client for Xlobby?

yep.

Which files did you transfer over to the Ipaq?

xlobby2sd.exe and servers.txt

Did you go into the setup and click the "start server" button?

yep. I don't think its a problem with the server setup as such, I haven't even got that far, the xlobby2sd.exe won't even run on my ipaq

any suggestions?
owain

by **rhinoman** on Sat May 14, 2005 12:42 pm

It wont run unless the server is already setup and you've altered the text file to your servers ip and the text file looks something like this

server:192.168.0.3
screen:ppcmenu
quality:100%
border:false
refresh:1000
navigationpad:true
bindbuttons:true
zone:1

All the thin client does is receive updated pictures from the server so unless the server is set it wont work.

by **owain_thomas** on Sat May 14, 2005 1:44 pm

cheers for the reply john,

any way, I've managed to get the exe file to run (by doing a hard reset and starting from scratch on my ipaq). But it just comes up with the little coloured clock thingy (ppc equivalent of the egg timer - never did know what to call that thing!) for a minute or so then says:

Connect() error,
Class:ClientSystem.Net.Sockets.SocketException:Could not find resource assembly

I've tried all I can think of with the servers.txt file, I have it pretty much exactly as you do there, the only exception being that I have server:10.0.0.13 - I've even tried using the hcpc name instead of its ip but no joy.

Any other suggestions?

by **owain_thomas** on Sat May 14, 2005 1:50 pm

tried to connect from another one of the desktop pcs on my home network and couldn't do it either. got an error message about secuurity exception:request for the permission of type system etc. etc.

any ideas?

by **rhinoman** on Sat May 14, 2005 3:34 pm

Its possibly a firwall issue on the server, have you tried turning it off?

by **hjackson** on Sun May 15, 2005 9:03 am

"I don't think its a problem with the server setup as such, I haven't even got that far, the xlobby2sd.exe won't even run on my ipaq "

That statement makes me think that you are not clear on how the server/client system works, which is where I was before I started using the Xlobby client too! :lol:

xlobby2sd.exe will not run independently on your Ipaq if it cannot connect to the server. So if you don't have a proper client/server connection, you will get one of the error messages you listed.

"...I haven't even got that far..."
That is the most troubling statement, the server HAS to be on before you can connect to the client. So I have to ask again, what s the address in the IP server status box when you click on start server?

hjackson

by **owain_thomas** on Sun May 15, 2005 1:29 pm

thanks for the replies, sorry if there was some confusion caused by what I said before. The problem that I had initially was not that I couldn't connect to the xlobby server but that my ipaq would not even run the xlobby2sd.exe file. This seems to have been a problem with the .net compact installation as when I did a hard reset it ran it fine. It wasn't that I was trying to get it to work without setting up the servers.txt file properly, just that I knew that it hadn't got as far as looking at that file as the ipaq wouldn't run the exe file.

Any way, since I've now got xlobby2sd.exe to run this isn't the issue. my problem now is that the thin client doesn't seem to be able to connect to the server. I have my servers.txt file set up exactly the same as the one john (rhinoman) lists above, with the exception that the ip address I have used is that of my hcpc, namely 10.0.0.13 (this is the one listed in the setup screen of xlobby when I press start and is the same as the one I get using ipconfig on my hcpc, as you'd expect):

server:10.0.0.13
screen:ppcmenu
quality:100%
border:false
refresh:1000
navigationpad:true
bindbuttons:true
zone:1

I have also tried this with the network name of my hcpc instead of its ip. neither works.

I have no firewall software installed on any of my machines and have turned off the windows one.

Any other suggestions guys?

by **GFORCE** on Sun May 15, 2005 4:51 pm

is there an actual menu called ppcmenu?

by **owain_thomas** on Sun May 15, 2005 4:54 pm

is there an actual menu called ppcmenu?

There is on mine yeah.

Never mind I've managed to get the web server working and use my pda through that with pocket ie. seems to work fine, nice and fast and does just what I want.

guess i'll never know why the thin client doesn't work, but hey, web version is fine

thanks for the suggestions,
owain