PDA in DCU

lau1247

anyone know how to get pda to work in dcu laplan..
I can get the internal site [I.E Dcu's site like mail etc]
But I can't get anything outside of dcu's server..

Any help would be great.,.

markpb

lau1247 wrote:

anyone know how to get pda to work in dcu laplan..

In the settings for whatever web browser you use, enter proxy.dcu.ie and port 8080. That should do the trick

rugbug86

or just bring it to csd...

lau1247

tried CSD by restaurant.. they sent me to csd in henry grattan..
Also no luck.. so if anyone has a PDA and has used it in dcu.. pls help..

Zyox

I haven't been able to get my XDA running WM2k3 to work with the proxy either. Gonna read up on it later, will let you know.

lau1247

thanks.. hope you find something

canker

I brought my PDA to csd and they sorted it for me. They just had to register its mac address on their system.

lau1247

ok.. I'll give it a go..
Which CSD did you go to?
The one by restaurant?
Henry Grattan?
Or the one in the hub on wednesday?

canker

the one in the library.

lau1247

there's a CSD in library??

rugbug86

ground floor beside the photocopiers

androphobe

hey, i just registered here, i've a pda and have had loads of trouble with it.
only got it to connect to laplan and computing today, but still no pages or anything. any luck after giving your mac address?

lau1247

apparantly they don't need mac address..
I brought it in to CSD by the restaurant and the guy fixed it.. thank god..

I have an Hp Ipaq 4700

what he did was go to setting, then click on the connection tab, then on the connection icon, then select "set up my proxy server".. from there on he select proxy then go ito advance and type in the proxy address as you would with laptop which is http://proxy.dcu.ie/proxy.pac

I can't remember if he use port 80 or 8080
I distinctly remember the guy said to turn off sock if it's on..

That's it.. hope this helps..

androphobe

i think its 8080 or 1080. as in either one. yeah i've the proxy settings set up and all, good. but i can only go to the dcu home page. not so much.

was it before you had the proxy address and port that you could go to dcu page?

yeah a guy in the library turned of sock for me, which got me to the main page.

Ferror

androphobe wrote:

i think its 8080 or 1080. as in either one. yeah i've the proxy settings set up and all, good. but i can only go to the dcu home page. not so much.

was it before you had the proxy address and port that you could go to dcu page?

yeah a guy in the library turned of sock for me, which got me to the main page.

Local pages on the DCU Network are available without any config of the network.

In order to access pages that aren't on dcu's server you need to go through a proxy.

Here are the settings you need:

Ok, well the computer/pda should connect automatically to either laplan 2.0 (most of campus) or "school of computing"

In order to look at anything outside of dcu's stuff though you'll need to enter a proxy.

Lazyman's proxy config file: (no need to specify a port)
http://proxy.dcu.ie.pac

Now your laptop/pda should work all over campus.

If it every gives you trouble when on laplan 2.0 however, you'll need to enter the proxy settings manually.

Enter: proxy.dcu.ie
port: 8080

Enjoy :P

androphobe

i've done that, i promise. i also, for the crack and at the advice of a friend, pinged the proxy address, and stuck in the number.
that was nice. this was yesterday. the first day it properly worked a bit.

i also put in 1080 instead of 8080, cos proxy.dcu.ie gave me the impression that it would work, and it did. and according to a representative of csd in the library its the same difference.

thing is i had the above proxy settings in already, port numbers and all, and it was only disabling the sock which actually got me to the main page. dr.
tomorrow more progress will be made i think.

?!

Ferror

The proxy only supports http access, so it's a good idea to disable any reference to socks4/5 etc...

Good luck with that, sounds like a complete pain in the ass

androphobe

oh yes. thanks.

Sebzy

This applies to all windows mobile systems

pick up and connect to the sid called laplan2.0 (No encription/security)

Use dhcp
you should recive a dhcp address that looks like 136.206.*.*

Onece you have an address

Set your proxy in your connection settings to

Address: proxy.dcu.ie
Port : 8080 or 3128 (Both do the same thing)

Disable Socks proxy as the stops some people from accessing webpages when the request goes through socks on port 1080/1079

you may need to preform a soft reset of the system for settings to take effect.