stefan@wheaton.UUCP (Stefan Brandle ) (11/09/89)
I have been trying to run pcANYWHERE (one of those remote access programs that permits one pc to connect to the serial port/modem port of another pc and do remote control of the other pc, a la `advise' on TOPS-20). A port on one DECserver 200 is setup to offer itself as a service. From another port I connect to it using PC MacTerm, a program that permits a Mac to control a PC running pcANYWHERE. If I use both machines like dumb terminals, connecting them through the terminal servers, using kermit or something like that, any characters typed on the pc show up nicely on the mac and vice versa. If I set the mac next to the pc and connect them serial-port to serial-port, the pcANYWHERE/PC MacTerm runs beautifully. However, when I run it through the terminal server, I start getting junk and the programs go bananas, eventually freezing up the connection. The only lines they are using on the direct connection that works are tx, rx and signal ground (pin 7 on 25-pin). Anybody have any theories or suggestions about what to try. I called DMA (Dynamic Microprocessor Associates) who makes it and they didn't have any special suggestions about why this is happening. Thanks for any help, -stefan brandle -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stefan Brandle UUCP: ...!{spl1,obdient}!wheaton!stefan Wheaton College "But I never claimed to be sane!" ---------------------------------------------- MA Bell: (312) 260-4992 ---------