On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 08:01:59PM +0100, Wasim Ahmed wrote: > On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 11:43:18AM -0700, Andrew Agno wrote: > > Wasim Ahmed writes: > > > Probably the only useful thing that currently cannot be replicated on > > > a Linux server on Windows NT Small Business Server appears to be > > > shared modems. > > > > Well, no. You can use IP masquerade--it works just fine with modems. > > You can also set things up so that it dials on demand. > > Oh. I forgot to explain what I meant. When I mean "shared modem" I > don't mean "shared internet connection", but rather a "shared modem". > That is, the ability to use a standard modem on COM2 of the server as > a modem from a virtual COM3 of the windows client. $ dpkg -p mserver Package: mserver Priority: extra Section: comm Installed-Size: 124 Maintainer: Debian QA Group <packages@qa.debian.org> Architecture: i386 Version: 0.23a-2 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.2-2) Filename: pool/main/m/mserver/mserver_0.23a-2_i386.deb Size: 16428 MD5sum: 397db73546f88a795cb5a042a10e5348 Description: Network Modem Server The mserver program is a network modem server which allows modems to be exported to any number of hosts on the (local) internet. Access control for each individually exported modem is performed on a per-host basis. . Windows 95 shareware client available. Work on a Mac version in progress. Cheers, -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better Micromuse Ltd. | than a perfect plan tomorrow. mailto:nnorman@micromuse.com | -- Patton
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