Subj : Networking modems
To   : Simon Avery
From : George White
Date : Mon Jul 10 2000 01:01 am

Hi Simon,

On 09-Jul-00, Simon Avery wrote to George White:

 DD>>>>> problem, but does anyone know how I can use only one
 DD>>>>> modem between two networked computers.  I am running
 DD>>>>> WIN98 on both.

 GW>> Modem shareing (access from a different machine) via a standard
 GW>> comms program or Internet proxying/masquerading/whatever? I
 GW>> didn't think it had the modem shareing.

 SA> Ah! Of course, you're right - looks like me and BC both read
 SA> Dot's Q. wrongly...

I wouldn't be that harsh, I just say you only answered half of it...

 SA> To answer the original Q., I understand some of the more expensive LAN
 SA> solutions (Such as LANTastic) can do this, but whether they then make
 SA> the modem available to dos apps is something else again.

I think there may be commercial software to do modem shareing using
Win 9x built in networking, but as I don't run any flavour of Win 9x
here currently and have no intention of running multiple Win 9x
machines at all I don't have any interest in finding out.

 SA> OS/2 shares modems, does it not? As does Unix?

Yes indeed, OS/2 has it built in. All one has to do is share the
desired modem port and then do a "net use COMx \\machine\\COMy" (maybe
with the ":" after the "x/y", but my OS/2 machine is currently down
awaiting a new MB/CPU so I can't check) where x is an unused port on
the local machine and y the shared port on the remote machine. As for
UNIX, or for most people Linux, I don't know as I don't have it
installed. Linux is something I have planned for the future :-).

 SA> Windows has always been a little weak in this kind of area. :(

Agreed :-(.

George

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