Local Services Supported by Bluetooth™Dell™ TrueMobile™ 300 Bluetooth™ User's Guide
Local Services Supported by Bluetooth™
Local Services are services that your computer provides to remote devices.
The services supported by Bluetooth are:
The names of all these services are displayed even though this computer may not be capable of supporting all of these services. For example, to provide the Fax service, this computer must have a local fax/modem.
Automatic start-up can be turned off for individual services (Click the Bluetooth Configuration panel, click Local Services tab, and then double-click the service name.). If a service is not configured to start automatically it can still be started manually (right-click the service and select Enable from the shortcut menu).
Right-click the service and select Disable from the shortcut menu. Disabled services are not available for use by clients.
With Local Device selected, the Details view of Microsoft® Windows® Explorer provides basic information about each local service:
Service Name — the name of the service
At startup, the status of the connection is indicated as follows:
Started(COM#) — The service is running and ready to use COM#.
Not Started — The service is not available to clients.
Connected(COM#) — The service is in use and the local port is COM#.
Empty field — The service is not connected.
A device name and/or Bluetooth Device Address — Identifies the device that is using the service.
To interrupt a connection from the server side, right-click the local service and select Disable from the shortcut menu.
To restore a connection from the server side, right-click the local service and select Enable from the shortcut menu.
To change the properties of a service, from the Bluetooth Configuration panel, click the Local Services tab, and then double-click a service name.
Click the General tab in the Bluetooth Properties windows and enter a service name (one to 99 alphanumeric characters). In most cases the default service name will work. However, in environments where there is more than one device of the same type or one device provides more than one service of the same type (this is only possible for the Bluetooth Serial Port service), the service name can be customized.
The service properties that may be changed are:
Startup Automatically — When Startup Automatically is enabled, the service starts when Bluetooth initializes. If Startup Automatically is not enabled, the service can still be started manually.
Secure Connection — When enabled, each time this service is used the remote user must submit a Passkey or Link Key. All data exchanged by the computer and the remote device will be encrypted.
Right-click a device name and select Connect to... the desired service.
Select a device in the Folders pane, right-click a service provided by that device, and then select Connect.
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NOTE: Only available services are displayed in the menus. |
From Bluetooth Explorer, right-click My Bluetooth Places and then select Bluetooth Setup Wizard.
From the Windows system tray, right-click the Bluetooth icon, select Quick Connect, and then select the Bluetooth service that you want to use.
If your computer has created a connection to the desired type of service in the past, the options are:
If your computer has never created a connection to this type of service, the only option is to select the Find Devices.... and to search for devices that potentially provide the service, and select a device from the list, and then click Connect.
After the connection to the service is created, complete any necessary additional steps such as starting and/or configuring the program that will use the service.
Some programs will close their open Bluetooth connections when they have finished using the remote service. (The Fax application, for example, closes the connection automatically when the Fax transmission is complete.)
Other applications have no way to determine whether an open Bluetooth connection is still in use (Dial-up networking, for example, may not be transmitting or receiving at any given moment, but may be still in use.). This type of connection must be closed manually by the operator when it is no longer needed.