On Thursday 10 February 2005 10:35, Chadley Wilson wrote: > Greetings guys > I am struggling to understand how this works and how to setup up the most > simple form of mgetty. > I have the default version that is included in in FC3 mgetty-1.1.31-2 > > Firstly what I am trying to do is this, > We test all out faulty modems at our support desk, > Instead of dialing out to an ISP and paying the phone bills, I would like > to be able to dial-in using the the internal phone lines, to my server. I > have equipped the server (an exaggerated PC) with an external Duxbury Full > Duplex 56K v90 serial modem > The modem is installed and configured and works on dial out. > > > The problem is that I have no understanding for how to get this working for > dial-in. > > Is there some getting started with mgetty advice anyone here could offer > please? > Or if you prefer to use something else and can pass some advise on that, it > would also be appreciated. > > The TLDP how-to just covers thing I don't know about, I doesn't cover my > specific senario. ( As I would understand it) > > > > Thanks > I hate replying to myself: Here is a very good how-to: http://leaf.sourceforge.net/doc/howto/pppserver.html#id2466532 Just one question, which I am unsure of, it says it will use my local passwd file. but how do I configure a user for dailin in the passwd file? -- -- Chadley Wilson Redhat Certified Technician Cert Number: 603004708291270 Pinnacle Micro Manufacturers of Proline Computers Proudly South African ISO9001:2000 Certified Production Line ======================================= LINUX - becuase I can do it my way. ========================================
