and don't forget your DNS/etc/hosts= How will you ID the machines otherwise-
and remember- you need DHCP running on the dial up server unless you know
how to use static IPs on PPP- easy enough though
Shanker
----- Original Message -----
From: "Indranil Das Gupta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "ILUG-Cal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 12:00 PM
Subject: [ilug-cal] Re:
> Hi:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Dr. Somenath Chakrabarty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > Dear Members,
> > Is it possible to connect a PC running under WIN95/97 to a
> > LINUX server using MODEMS at two ends connected to two telephones and
use
> > "telnet", "ftp", etc. commands?
>
> Absolutely, in fact, quite a few of us (Shanker, Soumit and myself)
regularly do this to transfer/sync files between
> ourselves. The config for this no great shakes, you need to configure PPPd
(the point-to-point protocol daemon) on the
> linux server to do this. After which you can dial in to the linux box from
the Win9x box just as you would do with VSNL
> or any other ISP.
>
> cheers,
> --indra.
>
>
>
>
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