David L. Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > If machine 'A' has four serial ports, and machine 'B' has none, is there a
> > method to allow machine 'B' to use machine 'A's ports?
> >
> >
> > David L. Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"Eugen Constantinescu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Yes. But I know only a theoretical way.
> If you have A connected with B into the network, you can set the NFS server
> to acces free the /dev directory of A. And you can make some links or ...
> what you want to do.
Unfortunately for this plan NFS treats device files as local. Host B will
end up using device files to try to access hardware it hasn't got. You could
rig up some sort of network connection with suitable programs,
or maybe settle for running the process on B, using files exported from A.
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