Bob Wrote: > I'm playing with another scheme and had the following question.
> Can Arachne be configured to call another individual computer over local > phone lines, or does it need a server? Dear List: I think this may be easy to achieve. The wonderful DOS program CUTCP will act as server or client over a PPP connection established by DOSPPP, as used in Arachne. I have been able to establish a PPP login to my ISP using CHAT. I have not done it, but it looks easy to make CHAT act to receive incoming calls through a modem. This would provide ftp and telnet functions. I am not clear on whether you would run them from DOS, shelled out of Arachne, or integrated with the graphical presentation of "my computer". Another option I have tried is to use BOADOS server. I have browsed a DOS machine running BOADOS with another machine running Arachne, over a serial line running ppp and it is wonderful! I imagine a dialler could be easily inserted into DOSPPP using CHAT that would allow a login - BBS style. The trouble with BOADOS is that once you run it you have lost control of the server computer until it is rebooted. Not much fun for that party! On the plus side, you can run a web page on the server with full html and graphics. It could be a very sexy dial-up noticeboard. The setup and testing part of course you do with arachne loaded on the server. A problem arises if two phone connected computers are trying to be both server and client. CUTCP allows you to change directory on the OTHER computer, and of course there is no security. It is all a bit unnerving to have somebody running your computer from afar! I have been running monkeylinux which is almost a DOS program as it runs on a DOS filesystem and offers DOSEMU. It can run PPP, lynx, Apache, etc over ethernet or serial line/modem. That is yet another way to go amd necause of the great security and multi-tasking of Linux you can be a server and still use the computer. Building and editing the server resources can of course be done with Arachne in DOS before you fire up linux. So .... I think the chat script for receiving calls is the only work to be done. Opinions? Regards Kali http://www.nimnet.asn.au/~kali
