Can anyone help.

[Ricky]

Just joined today and I want to say hello to you all

In <news:Ricky.1gy3jm@WiFi-Forum_dot_com> Ricky wrote:
>[...] The problem begins to arise when i swap the dongle from one
> computer to another (Something i do quite often)!! When i've moved the
> donglew i have to set up all the pairing again [...]

you want to read the thread starting with this posting
news:ch1jmb$aqf$1@atlantis.news.tpi.pl
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There's no way. The PIN is just one of the inputs to create a pairing key,
which is individual and machine related. Moving the dongle will require
another pairing on a new machine.

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"Ricky" <Ricky.1gy3jm@WiFi-Forum_dot_com> wrote in message
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>
> Hello
>
> I've currently got a Dynamode Bluetooth Wireless USB adapter
> dongle and have (eventually) managed to get it set up and working from
> 2 PC's and my mobile Phone (A Motorola A835 and an Eriksson T610). If i
> leave my dongle in the one computer then i'm fine, i can pair the
> devices and the services offered. The PIN code gets inputted to both my
> mobile and PC and the pairing is made. I can then come and go as i
> please. The problem begins to arise when i swap the dongle from one
> computer to another (Something i do quite often)!! When i've moved the
> donglew i have to set up all the pairing again as it seems to lose the
> PIN code and needs me to put another one in. I really need to know if
> theres any way i can swap the dongle over yet keep all the settings,
> eliminating the need to re-pair all my devices to a specific computer
> again.
>
> I know it would be sooooo much easier to keep one dongle in each
> machine but that's just not possible i move from to work etc.
>
>
> --
> Ricky
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>

[Ricky]

Hello

Thanks guys you've been really helpfull. It's about time for me to go shopping again to see if i can't get another dongle.

Ricky

Moin,

Am Thu, 9 Dec 2004 20:46:15 +1300 schrieb Mauricio Freitas:

> There's no way. The PIN is just one of the inputs to create a pairing
> key, which is individual and machine related. Moving the dongle will
> require another pairing on a new machine.

That is not totally correct, there's a host of different ways (agreeably
most of them are rather obscure).

Ricky: Your safest bet would be (I believe) to find out where your
software stores the generated key and then transfer this to the other
computer. You didn't mention what software you are using, though.

With Linux this would be easy, as the keys are stored in a simple file
(/etc/bluetooth/link_key) which you can copy to the other computer (make
sure that hcid is stopped while doing that).=20
With Windows you should be able to use regmon and filemon from
sysinternals during the pairing procedure to find out what is happening
in that time and maybe see where the key ends up being stored. If you're
lucky you might even be able to transfer it to the other computer then.
For MacOS I unfortunately don't have a clue for you.

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[Ricky]

Hey thanks Henryk.

I've just got filemon and regmon downloaded so i'm about to look into those and see if i can't see where windows XP is storing this generated key.

And sorry, I really should have mentioned what software i was using to do this, its the Widcomm bluetooth software 1.4.2 (build 10) drivers i have installed on to Xp professional with SP2.

Thank you for your help and i'll post my results from filemon & regmon as soon as i've tried it

Ricky