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From: RAF@CU.NIH.GOV (Roger Fajman)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re:  PC Remote control software over the Internet
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Date: 18 May 91 17:03:39 GMT
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> >Has anyone tried using one of the PC remote control software packages
> >(such as CloseUp or Carbon Copy) over the Internet?
>
> Yes, (though only over very little pieces).  Get two PCs running the
> NetBIOS LAN version of CloseUP/Carbon Copy and a vendor of NetBIOS over
> TCP/IP which supports M/P-node or extended B-node services.  Stir gently and
> hope the delay characteristics don't upset the PC software too badly....

Most NETBIOS over TCP/IP implemetations (including FTP Software's) seem
to be B-mode only.  Can someone name some that aren't?  TCP/IP protocol
implementations that aren't internetworkable (such as B-mode NETBIOS) seem
like almost a contradiction in terms to me.

> >...The idea would be to connect the controlling PC to a terminal server,
> >Telnet to a milking machine, and then to the controlled PC....
>
> ..Sorry, no telnet allowed if you really want remote control -- you need
> CloseUP/Carbon Copy type software running over TCP/IP at both ends.  If
> you fit Stanford's licensing characteristics you can get their VT100
> emulation telnet server for DOS, but that really is a very different beast.

I understand that PC Anywhere allows remote control of character-based
applications with the other end being a VT100, rather than another copy
of PC Anywhere.  This would seem to allow the milking machine connected
to controlled PC idea to work.  Has anyone actually tried it?

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