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From: "Glenn Sherman" <gsherman@no_spam.m20.net>
Subject: Re: impossible telnet task ??
Organization: Granite State Software
Message-ID: <2Tfk6.343$9d.46319@newshog.newsread.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 21:03:58 GMT
To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
Frank da Cruz <fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu> wrote in message
news:96s16t$hhb$1@newsmaster.cc.columbia.edu...
> In article <Ovfk6.339$9d.45457@newshog.newsread.com>,
> Glenn Sherman <gsherman@no_spam.m20.net> wrote:
> : I don't believe what I want to do is possible
> : - but I don't know much either.
> :
> : Here is what I would like to do...
> : ( kind of like net2phone - but net2modem )
> :
> : ( background )
> : I have a unix (Qnx) server that has a modem connected to /dev/ser1.
> : I am running 'modem' on the server to answer incoming calls.
> : I dial into the server from my windows computer with K95 using a
> : standard phone line.
> :
> : ( desire )
> : I want to keep the server as is.
> : I want to be able to continue to dial into the server like I
currently
> : do.
> :
> : I want to also be able to somehow connect from another site which
has a
> : DSL line ( or cable internet )
> :
> : Is there any way to dial into a remote modem through a permanent
internet
> : connection???
> : I can call a friend accross the country using my PC with net2phone.
> : Can I call a modem??
> :
> If I'm not mistaken, the dialing-in part of this question is a red
herring.
>
> Clearly, you can use C-Kermit to dial out from your QNX PC, no matter
whether
> you are sitting at its physical keyboard and screen or you are coming into
it
> via Telnet or other networking method, provided the QNX is configured to
> allow both incoming and outbound calls (which is a QNX sysadmin question
> that I can't answer).
>
> But can you use the QNX modem *directly* from Kermit 95? No. But you can
> Telnet from K95 to QNX, start C-Kermit on QNX, and dial out from there.
The
> result is the same but an extra step is required.
>
> I don't think you would want to be able to use the QNX modem directly from
> K95, because if you could do it, anybody could do it, and therefore
anybody
> could run up charges on your phone bill. The extra step of logging in to
> QNX and dialing out with C-Kermit ensures that only somebody who knows
> a QNX user ID and password can call out.
I am sorry for the confusion. I do NOT want to dial out from the Qnx
computer.
I was wondering if there was somekind of technology or service that would
allow
me to dial into the Qnx computer but without having a modem on my windows
computer.
(home computer) ===DSL line=== (Internet) - - - phone line - - - (Qnx
computer)
The Qnx computer is only going to receive calls - never make them.
current set up.
(home computer) - - - phone line - - - (Qnx computer)
I don't think it is possible, but maybe?
-Glenn Sherman