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- From: bostater@rsal.gatech.edu (Scott Bostater)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
- Subject: Re: Modem sharing using PC/NFS and Sun
- Message-ID: <bostater.715299089@rsal>
- Date: 31 Aug 92 22:11:29 GMT
- References: <idmrmb.714338561@gsusgi1.gsu.edu> <1992Aug28.054429.18473@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU>
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- Organization: Georgia Tech Res. Inst., Radar Systems Applications Lab
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- In article <idmrmb.714338561@gsusgi1.gsu.edu>, idmrmb@gsusgi1.gsu.edu (Mark Buffington) writes:
- >
- > We have a bunch of PC/DOS clients running PC/NFS connecting
- > to our Sun. On the Sun is a modem which the workstations
- > would like to be able to access. Is there some way to allow
- > the PC's access to the modem in a 'transparent' way? By
- > transparent I mean allowing them to run PC communcations
- > software that thinks the modem is local to the workstation.
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- What we do is run a program on the sun called pcomm. It closely
- resembles ProComm but it's actually running on the Sun instead of the
- PC. Granted, this isn't as transparent as you were asking for, but it
- does work and its not too inconvient.
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- Scott Bostater Georgia Tech Res. Inst., Radar Systems Applications Lab
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