Re: null-modem PPP connection from Windows

1999-11-14 Thread Jutta Wrage
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Oki DZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I did that by putting "exec pppd" in a script (/usr/local/bin/ppplogin) >and "/usr/local/bin/ppplogin" in /etc/password as the replacement for >the "/bin/bash" of the username that I had set up for connecting via >PPP. I did something simi

Re: null-modem PPP connection from Windows

1999-11-12 Thread Oki DZ
Peter S Galbraith wrote: ... > The question is now to get pppd started automatically instead of > a shell login. Is that done using the `-l login_program' getty > option? I did that by putting "exec pppd" in a script (/usr/local/bin/ppplogin) and "/usr/local/bin/ppplogin" in /etc/password as th

Re: null-modem PPP connection from Windows

1999-11-12 Thread John Pearson
On Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 04:30:22PM -0500, Peter S Galbraith wrote > > A friend want to connect his Debian laptop and a Windows box > through a null-modem cable; we thought a PPP link would be most > flexible in terms of usability (http, ftp, telnet, etc). > > He uncommented the `getty -L ttyS1 1

Re: null-modem PPP connection from Windows

1999-11-11 Thread John Hasler
Peter S Galbraith writes: > The pppd will sit there waiting for possibly hours for someone to > connect? If you have started it with 'passive', yes. > What happens when the user disconnects? If you have started it with 'persist' it will go back to waiting. > Which manuals? The pppd man page.

Re: null-modem PPP connection from Windows

1999-11-11 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Felipe Alvarez Harnecker wrote: > Peter S Galbraith writes: > > A friend want to connect his Debian laptop and a Windows box > > through a null-modem cable; we thought a PPP link would be most > > flexible in terms of usability (http, ftp, telnet, etc). > > > > He uncommented the `getty -L

Re: null-modem PPP connection from Windows

1999-11-11 Thread Wojciech Kocjan
Hello :) I had the same problem with nokia 9000 and ppp connections to a linux box. The short script below is not mine but helped me connecting n9k & linux. Anyway, try setting up a dial-up connection on windows, then minicom on linux and answer "OK" to every AT command sent to you :) Also write

null-modem PPP connection from Windows

1999-11-11 Thread Felipe Alvarez Harnecker
Peter S Galbraith writes: > A friend want to connect his Debian laptop and a Windows box > through a null-modem cable; we thought a PPP link would be most > flexible in terms of usability (http, ftp, telnet, etc). > > He uncommented the `getty -L ttyS1 19200 vt100' line in > /etc/inittab an

null-modem PPP connection from Windows

1999-11-11 Thread Peter S Galbraith
A friend want to connect his Debian laptop and a Windows box through a null-modem cable; we thought a PPP link would be most flexible in terms of usability (http, ftp, telnet, etc). He uncommented the `getty -L ttyS1 19200 vt100' line in /etc/inittab and added the serail port to /etc/securetty.