On Mon Oct 19 1998 00:00, "James Maes" wrote:

> This might be a little off of topic, but here it goes.
> 
> I have a laptop running win9x and I need to connect it to my Linux box (RH
> 5.1)
> 
> I have a serial cable connected to com1 on the laptop and com2 (ttyS1) on
> the Linux box.
> How can I set up the Linux box so that I can connect to it from the Laptop
> and share files.

Run a getty on your serial port.

Or better still, run a ppp connection through it, then run samba to do all
the win95 networking.

There are HOWTOs for doing all this... start with the serial HOWTO.

Good luck.

Cheers
Tony

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