Would a BBS on Pi accessible by Win98 PC via LAN?
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Qiao-ke · 2019-11-24 15:22

First post on here as I've only very recently found out about BBS's. I
want to know if it would be possible to have a BBS running on a
raspberry pi (using MysticBBS currently) and have a windows 98 PC
(maybe a Vista PC too) connect to it via LAN. If this is possible any
guides/info would be greatly appreciated thankyou.

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Edit: Please bear in mind I'm pretty new to BBS's and retrocomputing
in general but I'm willing to learn.

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dperry324 · 2019-11-24 15:29

Are you talking about having a telnet client for Windows? Syncterm or
netrunner are the best.

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Qiao-ke · 2019-11-24 15:32

thanks for the recommendation I'll check them out, once I have those
installed do you know how I'd go about connecting to the BBS on the
Pi?

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dperry324 · 2019-11-24 15:37

You have mystic set up and are running MIS and are accepted
connections? If so, use the ip of your pi as the address.

I would recommend watching the vids by mystic guy on YouTube. He talks
all about setting up mystic on the pi.

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Qiao-ke · 2019-11-24 15:40

thanks a bunch, I've been watching them and they've been really
helpful. But I wanted to know what I was getting into before I went
too far down the rabbithole and I needed a bit more specifics on the
win98->pi side of things so thanks for that.

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recourse7 · 2019-11-24 17:05

You would connect to the bbs that is running on the raspberry Pi
either over telnet or ssh - depending on what your bbs software
supported.

You would use would any standard telnet or ssh client - putty on
windows does both.

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charmanderincharge · 2019-11-24 23:08

You want to set up Enigma 1/2