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Everything Else => Zaurus Distro Support and Discussion => Distros, Development, and Model Specific Forums => Archived Forums => Angstrom & OpenZaurus => Topic started by: flophouse on December 20, 2005, 01:06:55 am
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After the good tips about fixing my feeds, I started working on syncing.
As a general note, if you have the patience to use ethereal, it's a great way to debug the syncing problems. The newer ethereals will even decode the packet stream as FTP so you can see what's going back and forth.
I have an sl-5500 using 5.3.4-rc with opie. Multisync version 0.82 with the libmultisync-plugin-opie on Ubuntu Breezy.
The main syncing thread was useful (thanks dansawyer!) but quite didn't work for me, so I'll post what I did and try and note how it's different than what was posted.
Dan rightly points out that you have to symlink Applications, Documents, and Settings to the root (/) from home (/home/root). From there, I had to create dummy files for addressbook, todolist, and datebook (which leads me to believe you only need to symlink Applications). Anyway, it looked like this :
cd /
ln -s /home/root/Applications .
ln -s /home/root/Documents .
ln -s /home/root/Settings .
touch /Applications/addressbook/addressbook.xml
touch /Applications/todolist/todolist.xml
touch /Applications/datebook/datebook.xml
You may not have to create the dummy files if you've used the Zaurus applications before. I did because I wanted all my data first.
I changed the Security->Sync setting to use Intellisync and changed the sync IP range to match my home network.
On the multisync side, I selected :
Type : Opie/OpenZaurus
Protocol : FTP
IP Address : The address of your Zaurus. I gave mine a DNS name, but Multisync insists on an IP.
Port : 4242
Enable QCop : Disabled
Username : root
Password : Leave this blank. Despite setting my root password, it doesn't work here.
The Multisync program connects over FTP multiple times, once for each file we 'touch'ed earlier. You'll get multiple questions on the Z asking if you want to sync, once per connection, eg once per file (it'd be nice to do this once, but alas).
Then, everything sync'd up nicely. My contacts are a bit strange (In Evo, I have the names as "Last, First" which displays as "Last\, First" in the contacts program), but they're all there, along with my calendar, etc.
That's it. If you've got this working other ways, I'd love to hear them. I'm not sure why the other two connection methods don't seem to work, but I'll try them again shortly.