Mobile Device 5/6 Emulator setup

Question

I am trying to setup a Windows Mobile emulator on Vista x64 so it can access the network, but I have not been successful so far.
I have the 64-bit version of Virtual PC 2007 installed for the virtual network driver, and the NE2000 networking emulator is enabled on each emulator device I tried.
I installed Mobile Device Center 6.1 in case it installed files, but as per the new rules, I am NOT cradling the emulator.
I installed the Windows Mobile 6 SDKs & Images (Std & Pro)

When I try to access a network path in Pocket PC 2003 (\\server\share), i get prompted for the network user name & password. 
I enter this information, and it connects successfully.
When I try this same procedure with either of the "USA Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC R2 Emulator" or "USA Windows Mobile 6 Professional Emulator" devices,  I constantly get a "Logon Failed" message, even though I am using the same credentials.
Note that I did verify that each device I tried was given an IP address by the DHCP server and can browse an internal website.

This is a first step I need to get working to ensure that we can properly debug the application we have created. 
Note that I do not have this problem on Windows XP.

Any assistance that can be provided is greatly appreciated.  Note that this is with the emulator which is why I thought I should log it here.

Thank you
Shaggee

Answer 1

maybe this link can help you 

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/winphone/forum/wp6n-wpstart/wm5-and-61-cannot-connect-to-a-shared-folder-on/e8b68397-e68d-4d31-ad08-ee104d121ccb

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NEU_ShieldEdge

Answer 2

According to that it is a known issue from over 2 years ago with WM 5/6, has never been fixed, and currently the only known solution is to purchase a 3rd party File Explorer app to do what should already work but doesn't.

That is just wrong.  It doesn't really explain why I do not have a problem on my Windows XP machine, unless there is more information inferred to by that article that I don't get.

Thanks for that info.  If anyone has any further info, I would be greatful to hear it.

Answer 3

That's probably because XP is by default allowing obsolete version of NTLM while modern OS do not. Fix may be as simple as registry change:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-networking/network-share-not-working-through-windows-7-home/cc7adcd8-5380-4a48-89ed-bde1125c5f2f

There more setting you can try tweaking described here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/823659

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Answer 4

It appears as this may be the case.  I tested again with my XP machine and found that I could access shares on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, but not on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 2008, or Windows 2008 R2.
In the past the only network shares I tested with were on a Windows Server 2003 machine.

Unfortunately, this does not explain with Microsoft has not provided a fix for this in Windows Mobile 5 or 6.

Does anyone know if this works correctly in Windows Mobile 6.5?  I have not had a chance to test this.

Answer 5

you have to install microsoft loopback adapter so your emulator will work. If no loopback adapter your emulator wont work for sure.

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Janitor

Answer 6

Isn't the loopback adapter installed with Microsoft Virtual PC?