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Cooking with Linux - Linux, Thunderbird and the BlackBerry—a Love Story

Issue 183

From Issue #183
July 2009

Jul 01, 2009  By Marcel Gagné
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Keeping various devices in sync with our Linux systems can be the source of nightmares for many. After all, asking for an open-source solution that can keep millions of smartphones, cell phones, e-mail clients, contact databases and calendars on the same planet, never mind the same page, seems akin to asking for the moon—to which Chez Marcel would like to ask, “Would you

Resources

Funambol: funambol.org

Funambol Downloads Page: https://www.forge.funambol.org/download

Funambol Community Projects: https://www.forge.funambol.org/participate/projects.html

Mozilla Thunderbird: www.mozilla.com/thunderbird

Open Mobile Alliance (the Home of SyncML): www.openmobilealliance.org

Marcel's Web Site: marcelgagne.com

Cooking with Linux: cookingwithlinux.com

WFTL Bytes!: wftlbytes.com

Marcel Gagné is an award-winning writer living in Waterloo, Ontario. He is the author of the Moving to Linux series of books from Addison-Wesley. Marcel is also a pilot, a past Top-40 disc jockey, writes science fiction and fantasy, and folds a mean Origami T-Rex. He can be reached via e-mail at marcel@marcelgagne.com. You can discover lots of other things (including great Wine links) from his Web sites at marcelgagne.com and cookingwithlinux.com.

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Troubleshooting

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Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 02/16/2010 - 10:50.

Marcel,

Great article! Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge and experience. I did everything you mention in this post and defined my desktop computer as Funambol server (I have a wireless home network with a desktop computer and a laptop both running sidux and a Blackberry Bold 9000). My desktop IP address is 192.168.1.101 so I defined Funambol URL as http://192.168.1.101:8080/funambol/ds in both server (using funambol-admin) and clients neither the laptop or Blackberry can reach the server (the message in the Blackberry is Network Error). Do I need to start an additional service (i.e. http server). Thank you very much in advance,

Luis Pablo Gasparotto

Partially solved

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 02/16/2010 - 13:21.

Marcel,

I'm making some progress. I installed dhttpd web server and now I'm able to open http://192.168.1.101:8080/funambol/ds in both Blackberry and laptop but I'm still unable to sync them with server using Thunderbird add-on nor Blackberry Funambol client. I think I'm close to solve it. Any help will be really appreciate.

Best regards,

Luis Pablo

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