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Originally Posted by mxmlitvinov
Received mine on Friday and *really* mixed response so far. The screen is fine, documents look good and pen seems to work well BUT the network features are a nightmare.
I set up a Web Disk through CPanel (WebDAV) on my server to coordinate files with the DPT-S1. It's WebDAV compliant AFAIK and works everywhere else, but not with the DPT-S1.
Instructions in Sony's manual are pitiful for WebDAV. I entered in all the details and nothing happened. Not even an error message to say where to look for the problem. Eventually, I removed the SSL from the WebDAV drive and it still didn't work. Then I tried just linking to a single folder within the WebDAV and for some reason it worked.
My WebDAV that worked was:
network: http://ssd10.myhost.com
port: 2077
username: username
password: password
sync folder: /Subfolder
destination folder: /
Having extra slashes or trying to access the root directory, or trying the https version or any other changes wouldn't work.
Having achieved a minor success, I then discovered that it would ONLY sync that folder and no subfolders. Furthermore, if I tried to 'send' to a destination, it would take a minute and then spit out an error message. I couldn't even send to the same subfolder it was syncing with.
Finally, I just created a Box account this morning and it appears to work fine. With WebDAV a restrictive (and archaic?) mechanism as is though, further restricting the device to Box.com seems nuts. Not really making this obvious until someone has troubleshooted the device for hours with very little feedback is a nightmare.
In the end, this thread is the best resource on how to configure the DPT-S1 out there. Sony has a 'community' forum, but 95% of the threads there are just someone asking a question from a year ago and getting no response. That really is just pitiful.
...not to mention that there are aspects of the menus on the DPT-S1 that aren't even explained once in Sony's manual: e.g. what 'Solution Server Settings' refers to in the Server Settings menu. Someone actually asked this months ago on the Sony forums, but no-one from Sony bothered to reply. |
i understand the frustration. when i first tried using the network features, it was a lot of trial and error as well. but i suspect that the majority of users just want it primarily for its size and pdf handling. everything else is secondary. so they don't have high expectations for anything else. in fact, i don't even mind if there is no wi-fi at all. if there's one thing i want for this reader in addition to pdf support, it's native support for epub as well. i could leave wi-fi off for it's entire life and it would be fine for me.