Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!ists!gkcl!aronb From: aronb@gkcl.ists.ca (Aron Burns) Newsgroups: comp.unix.msdos Subject: Re: Remote login to DOS? Message-ID: <17362@ists.ists.ca> Date: 15 Jan 91 18:16:36 GMT References: <1991Jan11.193729.14336@cbnewsl.att.com> Sender: news@ists.ists.ca Reply-To: aronb@gkcl.UUCP (Aron Burns) Distribution: na Organization: y Lines: 54 In article muir@convex.com (David Muir) writes: >In <1991Jan11.193729.14336@cbnewsl.att.com> spf@cbnewsl.att.com (Steve Frysinger of Blue Feather Farm) writes: > >>I'm trying to get up to speed on the various ways in which one can set >>up a pc for remote login. I'm familiar with the obvious method - >>running Unix on the pc - but that leaves some difficulty (to say the >>least) in getting to dos applications. I suspect there are dos-based >>solutions to this problem (don't some bbs's run in dos environments?), >>but I'm not familiar with them. > >>So if someone should share a short summary of remote login support for >>dos (and the identity of the associated software) I'd be very grateful. > >>Thanks! Steve > >>*** >>Thou art beside thyself. Much learning hath made thee mad. this is espcially applicable to epistemology and anything to do with Nietzsche.... >> -- Festus (the one in Acts, not Dodge City!) > >>We are made of dreams and bones... >> -- Dave Mallet: "The Garden Song" > >You might check into PROCOMM PLUS. It is a communications pacakge for >msdos that has a "host mode" that allows remote users to log onto >your system. It uses passwords and has and allows you to privliges. > >* Dave * If you just want to dial up a system and get/send files, list directories and similar activities, try Kermit. It has 'server' mode, can disable priveledges as required (but globally, not on a per user basis) and is free of charge. Procomm plus is good too. If you're talking about remote control (eg running an application that is resident on the remote PC as though it were on a local station) you can go with Carbon Copy for PC-PC interaction, or PC-Anywhere for PC-terminal/PC interaction. Multiple simultaneous access to applications? Perhaps UNIX running MERGE for character based apps. For graphic applications, Novell has a solution that is essentially a PC with modified DesqView, each 'task' running carbon copy or PC Anywhere and attached to a modem. It works, but is apparently slooooow. Aaron Burns "Nothing I say on the net is binding aronb@gkcl.ists.ca to our corporation" Toronto, Ontario "Life is a forge, and the purest metal (416)392-4310 comes from the hottest fire"