[missing-sync-pocketpc-talk] Error free can't connect problem (yet again)

[Michael Heinz]

As others have reported, and I've done in the past, I got the 
mysterious connection failure where M-Sync notices the PPC and tries to 
connect, but the connection times out without errors in the M-Sync log. 
After a couple of resets of the PPC, a couple of reboots of the 
Powerbook and turning the Firewall completely off and on again (I have 
manually opened the M-Sync port in the firewall, so normally it works 
with the Firewall on) everything suddenly started to work again.

Are there any logs on the PPC side that I can enable or look at to get 
another view into this problem?

Note that, at this point, everything is working and the firewall is 
turned *on*. So, it seems like there's two possible problems here: a 
bug in ActiveSync that is causing the phone/PPC to screw up or a bug in 
Apple's firewall that is causing it to block ports that are actually 
open. I'd like to try and nail this down for the next time it 
happens...