Re: [eGroupWare-users] eGW right tool for task?

[Chris G <cl...@is...>]

On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 10:45:58AM +0200, Felipe Sere wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 10:43 AM, Chris G <cl...@is...> wrote:
> >> > Well I can confirm that eGW works well with Nokia E series phones.  I
> >> > have a Nokia E71 and it worked straight away "out of the box" with
> >> > eGW, no hassles at all.
> >>
> >> Chris,
> >>
> >> That sounds great! I will start working on it once I get the new cellphone.
> >> Did it work "automagically" or was there at least some configuration
> >> needed? Do you have any pointer to documentation, specific to the
> >> Nokia cellphones?
> >>
> > There really is very little to do.  I installed eGroupware (in my case
> > the 1.6pre1 version, which seems pretty stable) on my Linux box
> > without any great problems.
> >
> > There's a syncml HowTo at:-
> >
> >    http://www.egroupware.org/index.php?page_name=wiki&wikipage=SyncMLInstallHowTo
> >
> > That tells you most of what you need to know, the only thing I had to
> > do (that isn't mentioned there specifically) was to add the following
> > to my apache configuration file:-
> >
> >    #
> >    #
> >    # Addition required for egroupware syncml
> >    #
> >    <Location /egroupware/rpc.php>
> >    php_value mbstring.func_overload 0
> >    Order allow,deny
> >    Allow from all
> >    </Location>
> 
> Thanks for the tips!
> 
> > I then just told my E71 to synchronise with eGroupware (I used syncml
> > version 1.2) and it did.
> Do you connect to an AccessPoint over Wifi and then just give the
> cellphone the address of the eGW-Server or how does this bit work?
> 
Ah yes, I forgot to add that didn't I.

Yes, I put the eGroupware synchronisation URL into the Sync setup in
my E71, this is:-

    http://my.domain.com/egroupware/rpc.php

I connect via the WiFi on my home router when at home or it works
equally well via a GPRS data connection when on the move.

-- 
Chris Green