Am Di, den 15.06.2004 schrieb A.J. Bonnema um 11:07: > Peter Boy wrote: > > In terms of a locally available remote resource (to establish a point to > > point connection between your windows machine and a target) you are out > > of luck, as to my knowledge. > > I hope I understand you here. I want to use the modem connected to my > linux machine, from a different windows machine (which has no modem). > You are saying that is not possible? To my knowledge it is not possible. You can't directly control the modem (as if it were connected to a local port). > > My thinking was, the modem presents a serial interface, just like a > keyboard or a mouse. So probably it shouldn't be too difficult to > realize a connection (or is it?). > > Does anyone know if this has ever been tried? OS/2 warp server is capable of doing it, but I'm not sure weather windows clients are capable to use it (OS/2 clients are). Peter
