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In article <809901059.3305@pbcoms.demon.co.uk> Paul@pbcoms.demon.co.uk writes:
>I would like to be able to work on files, etc. stored on the PC in my
>office at work whilst I am home at night or at the weekend.  I cannot
>dial from home to work since there is no direct line to my PC - I
>would have to go through the swirchboard, which is not available at
>those times.
>
>Is there any way I can have my office PC, set up as a host computer,
>dial my home number at a set time and make a connection to my home PC?
>
>I know the simple answer is to get a direct line at work, but that's
>not possible at the present time.
>
>Thanks for any suggestions,
>
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1> If you have some type of unix machine that you can dial into, 
you can put a TCP/IP package on your PC that provides an NFS server. 
Frontier's superTCP does this, others also.  Then you set up you 
PC to export your hard disk, mount the PC's hard disk on the unix machine.  
When you dial in, voila!, there are your PC files. I am assuming 
that you have a network.

2> Get a scheduler.  PC Tools for windows has one.  Get either a remote control package (eg. pcAnywhere, RemotelyPossibe) or possibly a comm package with file server capabilities.  I've heard that the new Procomm for windows might have this.


Hope this helps. rob.