Thanks for your input Lee,

It does seem strange that I can do this via a router but not via a modem,
since both use IP!

Kind regards
Adrian

> Adrian,
>
> So far as I know, you only have two choices, the W/S is never going to
> actually see the modem in the server, but you can light up Routing and
> Remote Access Services (RRAS) on the server, and "Host" the modem
connection
> for your network, including the W/S in question.
>
> You refer to modem sharing as being something that you do not want to
> enable, if you have well founded concerns about that, those concerns will
> also likely apply to the RRAS solution as well, and the modem sharing is
> just as less feature rich version of RRAS anyway.  A VPN is a feature of
> RRAS however, which you may want to explore.
>
> If what you were after is to simply configure your W/S to use a virtual
COM
> port that is somehow attached to the modem in the server, I do not believe
> that can be done.  Not with Win2K native features anyway.
>
>
> Lee H Buskey


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