Subj : Networking modems To : George White From : Roy J. Tellason Date : Wed Aug 09 2000 01:36 pm George White wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason: GW> Hi Roy, GW> On 04-Aug-00, Roy J. Tellason wrote to George White: GW>> Not seen you in the echos for a while... GW> I'm still wondering "What have you been up to?", you've been GW> uncharacteristically quiet for the last few months... Me? I've been working. Wasn't for a while there... And taking all the overtime they'll give me. Since it's non-technical work, I only get according to how many hours I'm in there, so it doesn't do me as well as I might otherwise. But I plan to fix that, I think, by acquiring some certifications and then pursuing better-paying work after a while. In the meantime I'm still catching up. I just don't have the time to participate in anywhere near as many echos as I used to. You can usually find me in TECH, at least, though, as well as a number of others. GW>>> Yes, but does it allow her to use (as she does) Terminate from GW>>> one machine via the modem in the other machine? NW>>> Of course it doesn't - but, as we both know, OS/2 does modem NW>>> sharing beautifully. ;-) RJT>> Oh? GW>> Yes :-) :-) RJT>> Does it have to be running on both ends? How would you go about RJT>> setting something like this up GW>> Yes, OS/2 is required both ends, but it works across versions. GW>> You do a net share on the com port the modem is on at one end, GW>> and at the other machine do a net use of an unused com port to GW>> the shared remote. It is all in the on-line documentation - GW>> that's all I needed to get it working here as a test from Warp V3 GW>> to Warp V4. RJT> I have one OS/2 box here but it's not hooked up at the moment as RJT> I'm shifting some things around. I was basically looking into RJT> the idea of being able to use the modem on that box or another RJT> from one of the w9x boxes here.. GW> If it's anything to do with Win then you have to look to third GW> party software. I believe it is available to allow shareing of GW> modems, however MS do not support it in any way, shape, or form. RJT> I'll figure something out. For some reason the w95 box completely lost "network neighborhood", it's just *gone*. As well as the items that appeared in various toolbars that would enable you to map a network drive. It was suggested to me that I drop to a prompt and try a "net use" but since the server isn't up at the moment I haven't gotten around to trying that yet. Since there _is_ a "net use" on there I suppose that's about half of it. The other option is to upgrade that box to 98, which I'm considering. It's only (only?) a P90 w/ 16M, so I'm not too worried about it, but there are other things I want that I can't get with the current setup anyhow. GW> Either: GW> i) get a switch box for manual control. GW> ii) with some line drivers and some logic ICs build a unit to GW> automatically switch between two (or more) serial ports (the PCs) GW> and a common target port (the modem). GW> iii) install OS/2 on both machines... The first two are not an option as I don't want to give that machine a modem, period, or I would have by now. W95 just has too many gaping security holes for me to want to do that. Possibly I'll get the BBS moved over to OS/2 and route things through there, or if not I'll put the extra modem on the Linux box and tell windoze that's where the proxy server lives. I know I can do browser access to that machine from either the OS/2 box or the w95 box, so they're all talking to each other, and TCP/IP is working the way that it should, it's just a matter of redirecting the stuff that's not local out the modem port if there's a live connection or returning an error message if not. I may end up throwing a firewall together, too, we'll see. --- * Origin: TANSTAAFL BBS 717-838-8539 (1:270/615) .