On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 05:07, A.J. Bonnema wrote: > Peter Boy wrote: > > Am Di, den 15.06.2004 schrieb A.J. Bonnema um 10:35: > > > >>How can I share a modem with a windows machine? > > > > > > 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? > > 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? For what reason do you want to share the modem? To get a terminal from the Windows box to some dial-up site, to establish a PPP connection to your ISP, please explain. Sharing a PPP connection is certainly possible through iptables and NAT. If you want a terminal interface to some remote site you could SSH (using e.g. putty) from windows to Linux and use minicom from there. If you want to connect a windows specific application to a modem to a remote site, then you are out of luck (AFAIK), but (win)modems are pretty cheap. You could get another modem. Bob...
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