Re: Can I mount a serial port on a WIN machine???

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From: Jeff Howard
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 00:00

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AFAIK, win9x can't share a com port like that.  It might be possible to
share a com port from an NT server machine but I don't think samba (the unix
side) has the ability to  'mount' it (yet)

jeff

montep@hal-pc.org wrote in message <3749c0d1.30279177@news.hal-pc.org>...
>Can I mount a serial port from my Win box?  I have a Linux server
>samba'd to a Win98 box.  What I want to do is mount a com port on the
>win macine to linux. Maybe something on this order (though this does
>not work)  mount //Win98/com3 /mnt/winmodem
>( Oh and would be a BIG aid if I could specify the win IRQ)
>
>tnx in advance

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From: "Jeff Howard" <jhoward@spam-sucks.pccompsoft.net>
Subject: Re: Can I mount a serial port on a WIN machine???
Date: 1999/05/25
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