dan@soma.UUCP (Dan Johnston) (08/11/86)
I am a new reader to this newsgroup so I apologize ahead of time if this has been discussed before. At my work I have a unix machine (masscomp) with two modems and two dedicated telephone lines that are used frequently. We also have kermit on the unix box. The masscomp runs both system V.2 and BSD 4.2. At home I have an IBM pc/xt that I use for fun things like home money management, investment stuff, and games for my three kids. I also use the pc heavily for dialing up my work for reading/sending mail, reading netnews, and wordprocessing remotely. I also have kermit on the pc so I can transfer a file from the unix machine at work to the pc at home. All works beautifully and is extremely useful--all thanks to the systems manager at work (stan barber). On a number of occasions, however, I wished I could do the reverse--that is, while at work (on the unix box), I would like to be able to dial up the pc at home and look at a file or run a program. The question is what software is available (if any) to allow me to do this? The modem is autoanswer and is connected to a dedicated phone line so that's no problem, but I would need some software on the pc to allow it to be run remotely. I would then need something on the unix box to set up properly the terminal characteristics. Any ideas or suggestions would be welcome. thanks! dan johnston arpanet: dan%soma.UUCP@rice.EDU dept of neurology UUCP: soma!dan baylor college of medicine houston, tx 77030
adamsd@crash.UUCP (Adams Douglas) (08/12/86)
The freeware comm program ProComm has a simple Host mode which enables you to post a password and dialup name on your machine and pass through into a PC-DOS shell when you dial up remotely. I don't know exactly what its limitations are, but I've tried it on my machine here and it works just fine. =================================================================== Adams Douglas "The above is my opinion and is not officialy policy of any other person or organization."
toma@killer.UUCP (Tom Armistead) (08/13/86)
In article <1048@soma.UUCP>, dan@soma.UUCP (Dan Johnston) writes: > At home I have an IBM pc/xt that I use for fun things like home > money management, investment stuff, and games for my three kids. I also > use the pc heavily for dialing up my work for reading/sending mail, reading > netnews, and wordprocessing remotely. I also have kermit on the pc so > I can transfer a file from the unix machine at work to the pc at home. All > works beautifully and is extremely useful--all thanks to the systems > manager at work (stan barber). On a number of occasions, however, I wished > I could do the reverse--that is, while at work (on the unix box), I would > like to be able to dial up the pc at home and look at a file or run a program. > The question is what software is available (if any) to allow me to do this? > The modem is autoanswer and is connected to a dedicated phone line so that's > no problem, but I would need some software on the pc to allow it to be run > remotely. I would then need something on the unix box to set up properly the > terminal characteristics. > > Any ideas or suggestions would be welcome. thanks! > > dan johnston arpanet: dan%soma.UUCP@rice.EDU > dept of neurology UUCP: soma!dan > baylor college of medicine > houston, tx 77030 Dan, Columbia University puts out a Kermit file transfer package for just this sort of thing, and they have the sources available for most any type of OS on any type of computer, including BSD 4.x and and IBM PC running MS-DOS, Unix, Xenix or whatever. These packages have a server (slave) function and a host (master) function. All of this is available on at least a couple different types of media, MAG-TAPE, FLOPPY, ect... for $100.00, this is basically the media and transfer fees only... You can get a hold of this stuff by calling or writing to: Kermit Distribution Columbia University Center of Computing Activities 612 West 115th Street New York, New York 10025 (212) 280-1754 If all else fails, send me mail and I will try to get the stuff to you... Tom All standard disclaimers apply - I'm just another friendly hacker... --- UUCP: ihnp4\ \killer!toma / drillsys!infoswx!convex!dj3b1/ Tom Armistead
rlneal@ihlpl.UUCP (Neal) (08/14/86)
> In article <1048@soma.UUCP>, dan@soma.UUCP (Dan Johnston) writes: > > At home I have an IBM pc/xt that I use for fun things like home > > money management, investment stuff, and games for my three kids. I also > > use the pc heavily for dialing up my work for reading/sending mail, reading > > netnews, and wordprocessing remotely. I also have kermit on the pc so > > I can transfer a file from the unix machine at work to the pc at home. All > > works beautifully and is extremely useful--all thanks to the systems > > manager at work (stan barber). On a number of occasions, however, I wished > > I could do the reverse--that is, while at work (on the unix box), I would > > like to be able to dial up the pc at home and look at a file or run a program. > > The question is what software is available (if any) to allow me to do this? > > The modem is autoanswer and is connected to a dedicated phone line so that's > > no problem, but I would need some software on the pc to allow it to be run > > remotely. I would then need something on the unix box to set up properly the > > terminal characteristics. > > > > Any ideas or suggestions would be welcome. thanks! > > > > dan johnston arpanet: dan%soma.UUCP@rice.EDU > > dept of neurology UUCP: soma!dan > > baylor college of medicine > > houston, tx 77030 > ------------------------- Another approach would be to get software that would allow the PC to operate as a host computer. HOST-III is available from a public domain users group called NPCUG. Address: NPCUG, Suite C-332, 323 So. Franklin Bldg., Chicago, Ill. Other public domain groups may have it also. This will not allow you to actually operate the PC from a terminal, but it will let you dial into it and transfer files with another computer. I ordered this and recieved it the other day. I started it running and then dialed into it and nothing happened. So, it does not work for me, yet. The difficulty may be that it requires a Hayes modem and mine is a Rixon running in the Hayes mode. If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know. --- Bob Neal AT&T IS Naperville, Il ihnp4!ihlpl!rlneal
ignatz@aicchi.UUCP (Ihnat) (08/15/86)
Concerning dialing up an unattended PC and cross-loading files, there are at least two PD and/or Freeware terminal and file transfer packages which include a mini-BBS mode that you could set up to do this. PIBTERM is written in Pascal, is PD, and is available in source if necessary. PROCOMM is Freeware, and is only available as executable, to the best of my knowledge. I know that PIBTERM is available on several BBS systems; I got PROCOMM from the PC user's group disk library. -- Dave Ihnat Analysts International Corporation (312) 882-4673 ihnp4!aicchi!ignatz || ihnp4!homebru!ignatz
berger@clio.Uiuc.ARPA (08/15/86)
If you have kermit 2.28 or later, I believe you can use it successfully in ctty mode with the PC. The only drawback is if you run a program on the PC that isn't well-behaved (ie: writes directly to screen memory), or that hangs and requires a system reset, which you can't do remotely.
tad@killer.UUCP (Tad Marko) (08/16/86)
In article <122@crash.UUCP>, adamsd@crash.UUCP (Adams Douglas) writes: > The freeware comm program ProComm has a simple Host mode which enables > you to post a password and dialup name on your machine and pass through > into a PC-DOS shell when you dial up remotely. > > I don't know exactly what its limitations are, but I've tried it on my > machine here and it works just fine. > > Adams Douglas Well, I use Procomm, though I have never used the host mode. I'm sure it is very similar to using the DOS ctty command to accomplish the same thing. The limitations are that it will only work with DOS, and programs which do all their I/O through BIOS, in other words, *very* few commercial programs will be able to be run over the modem. However, this command is still *very* useful for retrieving data from your computer via remote (especially if the rest of you family is computer-illiterate and therefore uncapable of seting up the computer for an upload with you giving instructions over the phone :-) Tad -- Tad Marko ..!ihnp4!killer!tad || ..!ihnp4!alamo!infoswx!ntvax!tad UNIX Connection BBS AT&T 3B2 North Texas State U. VAX 11/780 If it's not nailed down, it's mine; If I can pick it up, it's not nailed down.