How to get Debian and (argh!) Windows 95 machines linked through null modem?
Hi Debianers!! I have a big problem and little time to solve. Can anyone help me? I have to get a Debian (hamm) machine and a (argh!) Windows 95 one linked through a null modem cable using PPP protocol. The Debian machine can be able to connect Internet through ppp0. I already tryed everything I know. Does anyone have any ideas? TIA []s Pablo (Spectra)
Re: How to get Debian and (argh!) Windows 95 machines linked through null modem?
Pablo (Spectra) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a big problem and little time to solve. Can anyone help me? I have to get a Debian (hamm) machine and a (argh!) Windows 95 one linked through a null modem cable using PPP protocol. The Debian machine can be able to connect Internet through ppp0. Try Samba. Debian supports Samba. Samba supports the Windows networking style via TCP-IP. Alas, I can't help you with the lack of time you have. Recently I have set up a network with Samba and it has cost me much time and many questions on a local dutch Linux mailing list to get it going. Paul Huygen
Re: How to get Debian and (argh!) Windows 95 machines linked through null modem?
I have a big problem and little time to solve. Can anyone help me? I have to get a Debian (hamm) machine and a (argh!) Windows 95 one linked through a null modem cable using PPP protocol. The Debian machine can be able to connect Internet through ppp0. I already tryed everything I know. Does anyone have any ideas? You should probably use getty/mgetty on the linux side. I'm not sure if win95 has a serial line modem driver. I'm pretty sure win98 has though. Good Luck Regards Sarel Botha
Re: How to get Debian and (argh!) Windows 95 machines linked through null modem?
Paul Huygen wrote: Pablo (Spectra) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a big problem and little time to solve. Can anyone help me? I have to get a Debian (hamm) machine and a (argh!) Windows 95 one linked through a null modem cable using PPP protocol. The Debian machine can be able to connect Internet through ppp0. Try Samba. Debian supports Samba. Samba supports the Windows networking style via TCP-IP. Alas, I can't help you with the lack of time you have. Recently I have set up a network with Samba and it has cost me much time and many questions on a local dutch Linux mailing list to get it going. Paul Huygen -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null if you have installed one of the doc-linux packages, then look at the PPP-HOWTO (on my system, doing zless /usr/doc/HOWTO/PPP-HOWTO works) This has a section about using ppp over a nullmodem cable to connect to other OSs Samba is jumping the gun a bit at this stage : - you need to have ppp connectivity working first, then you might want to think about file/printer sharing. frankie -- Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff. --Peter de Vries http://www.skunkpussy.freeserve.co.uk - Drum'n'Bass music, samples and links. ICQ://25576761begin:vcard n:;Frankie x-mozilla-html:TRUE url:http://www.skunkpussy.freeserve.co.uk adr:;;;Birmingham;;;UK version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Mr x-mozilla-cpt:;-8160 fn:Frankie end:vcard
Re: How to get Debian and (argh!) Windows 95 machines linked through null modem?
Pablo Longhi Lorenzzoni wrote: Hi Debianers!! I have a big problem and little time to solve. Can anyone help me? I have to get a Debian (hamm) machine and a (argh!) Windows 95 one linked through a null modem cable using PPP protocol. The Debian machine can be able to connect Internet through ppp0. I already tryed everything I know. Does anyone have any ideas? I solved this problem as follows: 1. I configured the corresponding serial port as a standard modem on the W machine. 2. I observed the modem control commands sent by the W machine, and answered them as expected (OK, CONNECT, ...) so the W thought it was talking to a working modem. 3. Now I run pppd from inittab (respawn) with the appropriate connect and disconnect scripts (using chat) to automate the previous step. The W machine starts up the PPP link after this fake modem reports a successful connection. After that, everything should work as a normal PPP link. Note: if you want to use both this and the Internet connection on the Debian machine, you should write the correct ip-up and ip-down scripts to update your routing table, and you should enable IP forwarding in the kernel in order to enable Internet connection for the W machine (I'm not sure it works, 'cause I use this whole stuff only for connecting the two machines). I've also got a question according to this. I'd like to get Samba working over this nullmodem PPP link to share the disk space and the printer on the Linux machine. I've tried a lot of fine-tunings concerning interface and routing table settings and Samba configuration, but the result is always the same: it sometimes works correctly (browsing, sharing and the like), but sometimes it doesn't work at all (the W machine doesn't even start up M$ Networking), with exactly the same setup on both machines. Now I'm not sure of even which machine is to be blamed for this. András
