# Transformer Prime **URL:** \ **Category:** Chatting over the Back Fence\ **Created:** [June 21, 2012, 6:42am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/transformer-prime/22768 "2012-06-21T06:42:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![System1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/51bf81/32.png) [@System1](https://forums.suse.com/u/System1)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 6:42am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/transformer-prime/22768/1 "2012-06-21T06:42:56Z")
Ok. So my nice shiny brand new Transformer Prime 201 arrived Friday. The keyboard arrived yesterday. I’ve been thinking good thoughts about it so far. I’ve been trying to get activesync working without much luck. What app works? I tried Enhanced Email by Quantum. I don’t get an Inbox and it won’t talk to the calendar. It’s kind of funny. I didn’t even blink when I dropped over a $100.00 to get the keyboard. It took a couple of days to decide to spend the $10.00 for Enhanced Email. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 7:15am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/transformer-prime/22768/2 "2012-06-21T07:15:09Z")
On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 03:42:56 GMT Bob Crandell [bob@donttreadon.me](mailto:bob@donttreadon.me) wrote: [color=blue] > Ok. So my nice shiny brand new Transformer Prime 201 arrived > Friday. The keyboard arrived yesterday. I’ve been thinking good > thoughts about it so far. I’ve been trying to get activesync working > without much luck. > > What app works? I tried Enhanced Email by Quantum. I don’t get an > Inbox and it won’t talk to the calendar. > > It’s kind of funny. I didn’t even blink when I dropped over a > $100.00 to get the keyboard. It took a couple of days to decide to > spend the $10.00 for Enhanced Email.[/color] Hi Nice 🙂 Does post #4 help? [http://www.transformerforums.com/forum/transformer-prime-help/14584-mail-issues-office365.html](http://www.transformerforums.com/forum/transformer-prime-help/14584-mail-issues-office365.html) I have a Transformer TF101, don’t do mail on it… I can connect as an mtp device, but it’s just easier to use sftp on my home network. I can run an ssh server on it if elsewhere. Connects to my twonkymedia server running on SLES without problems. Just an all round multi purpose machine for surfing and playing angry birds 😉 – Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890) SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (x86\_64) Kernel 3.0.31-0.9-default up 1 day 2:00, 2 users, load average: 0.75, 0.88, 0.88 GPU GeForce 8600 GTS Silent - Driver Version: 302.11 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 6:22pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/transformer-prime/22768/3 "2012-06-21T18:22:22Z")
On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 04:15:09 +0000, malcolmlewis wrote: [color=blue] > On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 03:42:56 GMT > Bob Crandell [bob@donttreadon.me](mailto:bob@donttreadon.me) wrote: > [color=green] > > > Ok. So my nice shiny brand new Transformer Prime 201 arrived Friday.[/color] > > Hi > Nice 🙂 > > Does post #4 help? > [http://www.transformerforums.com/forum/transformer-prime-help/14584-](http://www.transformerforums.com/forum/transformer-prime-help/14584-)[/color] > mail-issues-office365.html[color=blue] > > I have a Transformer TF101, don’t do mail on it… I can connect as an > mtp device, but it’s just easier to use sftp on my home network. I can > run an ssh server on it if elsewhere. Connects to my twonkymedia server > running on SLES without problems. Just an all round multi purpose > machine for surfing and playing angry birds ;)[/color] We are using Groupwise. This got pretty close: [http://www.transformerforums.com/forum/asus-transformer-help/4002-](http://www.transformerforums.com/forum/asus-transformer-help/4002-) transformer-use-job.html Apparently the native app _should_ work. Drat. Blew 10 bucks. If I can’t get it to work there is always WebAcc which is decent enough. I haven’t gotten to ssh yet. I do have VNC. I’m looking at TeamViewer. I’ve heard good things about it. Angry Birds is further down on my list. I did find pinball though. We have Slingbox through Dish. It’s kind of cool to watch TV on it. Too bad there is so little that’s worth while. Or maybe that’s a good thing. How do you turn off that stupid touchpad? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 2:46am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/transformer-prime/22768/4 "2012-06-22T02:46:01Z")
forget teamviewer for connecting to a linux box, have tried it and found it to not be reliable, doesn’t run as a service as it’s just a port of the windows one using wine… teamviewer on windows works a treat though, for linux just use ssh or vnc ## – gleach1 gleach1’s Profile: [http://forums.novell.com/member.php?userid=934](http://forums.novell.com/member.php?userid=934) View this thread: [http://forums.novell.com/showthread.php?t=457116](http://forums.novell.com/showthread.php?t=457116) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 6:49am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/transformer-prime/22768/5 "2012-06-22T06:49:04Z")
On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 23:46:01 +0000, gleach1 wrote: [color=blue] > forget teamviewer for connecting to a linux box, have tried it and found > it to not be reliable, doesn’t run as a service as it’s just a port of > the windows one using wine…[/color] I’ve found it to be quite reliable myself. Got it running on several openSUSE 12.1 boxes and my OES2 box. Never had a problem getting connected. [color=blue] > teamviewer on windows works a treat though, for linux just use ssh or > vnc[/color] Don’t use VNC in the clear, though. It’s easily hacked. ## Jim Jim Henderson, CNA6, CDE, CNI, LPIC-1, CLA10, CLP10 Novell Knowledge Partner ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 6:18pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/transformer-prime/22768/6 "2012-06-22T18:18:48Z")
On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 03:49:04 +0000, Jim Henderson wrote: [color=blue] > On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 23:46:01 +0000, gleach1 wrote: > [color=green] > > > forget teamviewer for connecting to a linux box, have tried it and > > found it to not be reliable, doesn’t run as a service as it’s just a > > port of the windows one using wine…[/color] > > I’ve found it to be quite reliable myself. Got it running on several > openSUSE 12.1 boxes and my OES2 box. Never had a problem getting > connected. > [color=green] > > > teamviewer on windows works a treat though, for linux just use ssh or > > vnc[/color] > > Don’t use VNC in the clear, though. It’s easily hacked. > > Jim[/color] I would like to get OpenVPN working but from what I’ve read I need to root it to make it work. I’d rather not do that. I saw another VPN app but I haven’t had a chance to see if it will work with OpenVPN yet. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 7:35pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/transformer-prime/22768/7 "2012-06-22T19:35:02Z")
On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 15:18:48 +0000, Bob Crandell wrote: [color=blue] > I would like to get OpenVPN working but from what I’ve read I need to > root it to make it work. I’d rather not do that. I saw another VPN app > but I haven’t had a chance to see if it will work with OpenVPN yet.[/color] Yeah, openvpn requires root, because it adds a tap/tun driver & interface to the mix. It works quite well, got my router configured with openvpn and my Android phone connects with no trouble. As does my laptop, when I don’t have the hosts file pointing to the local address (which matches the DNS name for the external address). Jim – Jim Henderson, CNA6, CDE, CNI, LPIC-1, CLA10, CLP10 Novell Knowledge Partner ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2012, 11:27pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/transformer-prime/22768/8 "2012-06-25T23:27:06Z")
On 06/21/2012 04:42 AM, Bob Crandell wrote:[color=blue] > Ok. So my nice shiny brand new Transformer Prime 201 arrived Friday. > The keyboard arrived yesterday. I’ve been thinking good thoughts about > it so far. I’ve been trying to get activesync working without much luck. > > What app works? I tried Enhanced Email by Quantum. I don’t get an Inbox > and it won’t talk to the calendar. > > It’s kind of funny. I didn’t even blink when I dropped over a $100.00 to > get the keyboard. It took a couple of days to decide to spend the $10.00 > for Enhanced Email. > [/color] Bob, I bought my prime quite a while ago now and I am so happy with it. There is many a time I just take it to a customers site and am able to do what I need to. I heard there is an app that you can use for VPN that does not need to root the device for VPN if you are running ICS Lance ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2012, 7:18pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/transformer-prime/22768/9 "2012-06-26T19:18:43Z")
On 6/20/2012 11:42 PM, Bob Crandell wrote:[color=blue] > Ok. So my nice shiny brand new Transformer Prime 201 arrived Friday. > The keyboard arrived yesterday. I’ve been thinking good thoughts about > it so far. I’ve been trying to get activesync working without much luck. > > What app works? I tried Enhanced Email by Quantum. I don’t get an Inbox > and it won’t talk to the calendar. > > It’s kind of funny. I didn’t even blink when I dropped over a $100.00 to > get the keyboard. It took a couple of days to decide to spend the $10.00 > for Enhanced Email. > [/color] I had to google and read through this thread… Thought you got Optimus or something :-p Wyatt wants a pet bumble-bee (the transformer)…HAHA.