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

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4 total messages Started by montep Mon, 24 May 1999 00:00

#179

Author: montep
Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 00:00

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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

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

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Author: Greg Menke
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 00:00

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There are a few people who've written server software that runs under
NT/95 which redirects communications from a TCP/IP socket to a comm
port.  There is at least one GPL and one proprietary solution.
Similar programs (termpkg...?) exist for Linux as well.

Check Simtel for the Winderz version.

Gregm


> 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

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

#180

Author: 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

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

#178

Author: Tony Smith
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 00:00

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Do a search on "Tactical Software"
Amercian mob who have quite a bit of software along the lines of what you
are looking for.

I was using the trial version of one of their products to allow a Windows9x
box to use a Com Port  shared by a Linux Box (Yes I realise that this is the
reverse of what you are watning to do, but I think that they had software to
do it that way as well).

Be warned, whilst nearly all of Tactical Software's products have free trial
periods I was put off using them in the long term due to very very high
purchase prices.


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Tony Smith
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http://members.xoom.com/tony_smith
tony.smith@usa.net




> 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)
>
>
> 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.

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