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From: AMillar@cup.portal.com (Alan DI Millar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell,comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Dialin service to Novell Server
Message-ID: <38655@cup.portal.com>
Date: 30 Jan 91 09:46:00 GMT
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Simple dial-in service is documented in the "Bridges" manual
for Netware 2.15.  

On your lan, you build an external bridge to receive calls.
There is built-in support for using Hayes-type modems on COM1 or
COM2.  You configure an external bridge with one or more lan cards.
You also configure a lan adapter using the Novell-supplied driver that
says "IBM Async COM1 and COM2".  After the BRGEN, you use a separate
program called ARCONFIG to configure the port's baud rate, etc.

On the machine that will dial in, you use SHGEN to create an IPX with
the "IBM Async COM1 and COM2" driver.  You then use ARCONFIG to 
configure the IPX with the phone number of your external bridge, etc.

When you run IPX on the workstation, it will dial the phone and connect
you to the bridge.  You then run NET3 (or 2 or 4) and you are connected
to a server!

Access is somewhat slow at 2400 baud.  The best thing to do is to put
commonly used commands, such as LOGIN and MAP, on the workstation
to speed things up.  However, I just tried it last week and it
works.

There are other approaches, like PCAnywhere, but they aren't using
the power of your machine at home.  With this approach you can even
link TWO BRIDGES for remote lan interconnection!

- Alan Millar    AMillar@cup.portal.com