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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Q: Shared modem on FreeBSD and Windows95 Date: 18 Aug 1996 19:35:40 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 27 Message-ID: <4v7rac$2jq@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4v6v8o$5ro@news.euro.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E sake@helpdesk.euronet.nl (Sake Blok) wrote: > In my network at home I have a FreeBSD-machine and a Windows'95 machine > and my modem in connected to the FreeBSD-machine. But occasionally I'd > like to use my modem from my WIndows95 machine and since I find switching > the plugs not an elegant solution I wondered if there was something to > use the FreeBSD-modem over the ethernet-network. I have searched for a > while now, and all I can find are windows to windows solutions. For the Windows side, there's a shareware tool called ``COMt''. It emulates a serial port, and forwards the data over the network. I wrote a little server-side stub that redirects the raw modem to a network port, to be run under control of inetd, specifically intended to be a server for COMt clients. Due to public demand (mostly from the Samba folks), i released it to the public, and some kind soul has put it up for FTP at ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/je/jeffml/commsrv.tar.gz. There are a few features missing, but it works well so far. It's in regular use for things like WinCIM at my employer. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)