Adrian, So far as I know, you only have two choices, the W/S is never going to actually see the modem in the server, but you can light up Routing and Remote Access Services (RRAS) on the server, and "Host" the modem connection for your network, including the W/S in question.
You refer to modem sharing as being something that you do not want to enable, if you have well founded concerns about that, those concerns will also likely apply to the RRAS solution as well, and the modem sharing is just as less feature rich version of RRAS anyway. A VPN is a feature of RRAS however, which you may want to explore. If what you were after is to simply configure your W/S to use a virtual COM port that is somehow attached to the modem in the server, I do not believe that can be done. Not with Win2K native features anyway. Lee H Buskey -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adrian Wells Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2003 9:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [WS_FTP Forum] Remote modem - How to? Hi, I'm new to this list so if the question as been asked recently, accept my apologies and please send me in the right direction. I have WS_FTP pro sitting on a WIN98se BOX if I use a local modem all is cool. but... I have now networked the above box and want to FTP via the modem on my server (I have not/do not want to install modem sharing on the server). Has anyone managed to do this or does anyone have any ideas please. More info... The server is WIN2000 Server, running DHCP, DNS, squidNT, a mailserver, I have two workstations, all connected by a mini hub. everything else works fine! I can not ping the outside world or trace route from the W/S (okay from the server) but I can resolve addresses when trying. The server address is set as the gateway for the W/Ss the same address is also set for the DNS server. WS_FTP pro returns the following error when trying to connect via the Server Modem, <SNIP> Finding host anydomain.net Connecting to qqq.qqq.qqq.qqq:21 Connect failure </SNIP> If I try FTP at the console on the 98 box I get <SNIP> ftp> open anydomain.net > ftp: connect :10060 ftp> </SNIP> I've checked the error and it implies that the W/S can't see the modem. Any help gladly received Have a great Christmas everyone Kind regards Adrian Wells Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/wsftp_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/wsftp_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
