Pablo Longhi Lorenzzoni wrote: > > Hi Debianers!! > > I have a big problem and little time to solve. Can anyone help me? > I have to get a Debian (hamm) machine and a (argh!) Windows 95 one > linked through a null modem cable using PPP protocol. The Debian machine can > be > able to connect Internet through ppp0. > I already tryed everything I know. Does anyone have any ideas? >
I solved this problem as follows: 1. I configured the corresponding serial port as a standard modem on the W**** machine. 2. I observed the modem control commands sent by the W**** machine, and answered them as expected (OK, CONNECT, ...) so the W**** thought it was talking to a working modem. 3. Now I run pppd from inittab (respawn) with the appropriate connect and disconnect scripts (using chat) to automate the previous step. The W**** machine starts up the PPP link after this fake "modem" reports a successful connection. After that, everything should work as a normal PPP link. Note: if you want to use both this and the Internet connection on the Debian machine, you should write the correct ip-up and ip-down scripts to update your routing table, and you should enable IP forwarding in the kernel in order to enable Internet connection for the W**** machine (I'm not sure it works, 'cause I use this whole stuff only for connecting the two machines). I've also got a question according to this. I'd like to get Samba working over this nullmodem PPP link to share the disk space and the printer on the Linux machine. I've tried a lot of fine-tunings concerning interface and routing table settings and Samba configuration, but the result is always the same: it sometimes works correctly (browsing, sharing and the like), but sometimes it doesn't work at all (the W**** machine doesn't even start up M$ Networking), with exactly the same setup on both machines. Now I'm not sure of even which machine is to be blamed for this. András
