Dial in Server HOWTO... The Linux box starts acting like a dial in Domain Controller, offering the guy more than you'd hoped for, an IP address, a successful domain login, internet access and all that palava, but it goes for me...
I use the dial in approach for a friend who has no internet, he shares mine, to grab his emails ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Cheetham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2004 5:44 PM Subject: Re: Dial-in to my computer > On Jun 20, 2004, at 2:23 PM, Andrew Errington wrote: > > the phone answered by my modem, and send some files to me. That's it. > > No > > web surfing, no mail, no sharing of my cable, nothing else. Just dial > > up > > occasionally and give me some data. > > > > I have dipped into the Modem HOWTO which describes how to get a login > > prompt on another PC over a modem link, but I don't think that's quite > > what > > I want. > > Well, it could be. If all you want is to transfer files, then just > getting a shell session and running a zmodem program in the session > would do the trick. > > > I think I want my friend's PC to be on my local subnet, so he can > > In which case you're getting close to the "no web surfing, no mail ..." > world. More complication than you need, except that it's probably well > documented. Think 'ppp' ... which is essentially just a complex form of > zmodem interaction. > > -jim >
