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Article #36Multiple users and multiple modems.
From: Ron Lewis
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1995 07:01
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1995 07:01
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Modem networking help needed. Okay- Here is the question. At work we are running on Novell 3.12 with 7 users. We want to know the easiest way to be able to hookup 2 Fax-Modems and have one of them dedicated to only modeming and the other one be able to do both modeming and faxing. Basically we want to have the one modem sit there and wait for someone to call up and download the latest version of our software using a password. The other modem we want to be able to have any one of the 7 users be able to send a fax or modem something from their computer. The modem needs to be able to switch or quit the faxing to do modeming and vice-versa. We have a 386-25 that can be dedicated for this use. Delrina has a product for Network usage that sells for around $600 for a 5 user pack that sounds like it may work. I am looking for other or better options of handling this. Maybe even something like using voice mailboxes for faxes. We also want to be able to change a password or do something to allow only the one customer to download our software update and no one else that may call on the same day or time (ie..customer gives the password to his friend) Something unique or difficult to get around. I assume that since I don't need a mouse on the server I can use comm-1 for one modem and comm-2 for the other modem. What other types of comm board add-on solutions are there? We also have previously setup Windows 4 Workgroups to some degree that allowed different users to fax from there desktop, but we want more flexability and options than is built-in to WFWG. Please include both hardware and software solutions that you have tried or know of that will work. Would appreciate both newsgroup post and e-mail. Thank you for all help in advance. Ron magicmk@val.net
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!news.val.net!usenet From: magicmk@val.net (Ron Lewis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.comm,bit.listserv.novell,comp.dcom.modems,comp.os.ms-windows.apps.comm,comp.os.mss-windows.networking.ras Subject: Multiple users and multiple modems. Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1995 07:01:49 GMT Organization: Magic Maker Software Message-ID: <430mkp$7ue@vv.val.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp4.val.net X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99a.107