remote login

[monte_jewell]

Apologies b/c this is not so much "how i did it" as "i can't do it yet."

I want to remotely log on to my office computer from home by telephoning and (somehow) telling the modem to turn the network on and log me in. We have a patchwork of machines at work running various flavors of Windows.

At home, I've installed (finally) Debian Linux and am working very hard to learn it. I'm a lawyer for a nonprofit and was an easy convert to open source after realizing the office could not afford to replace Amicus Attorney --- the case management software I used in private practice.

Any help will be passed along in the form of direct benefit to our (indigent) clients and the other service providers I assist. After I learn this, I want to set up links to machines in other offices where its difficult for me to travel.

:confused:

[godot]

I'm not quite sure what you mean by turn the network on, but I guess you want your computer at work to pick up the phone (using the modem) when you dial in. I've never done this since I don't use modems anymore :D but I looked around the debian package database and I found one that might do what you want. You should check this (http://packages.debian.org/testing/comm/mgetty.html) out and there's online documentation here. (http://alpha.greenie.net/mgetty/) Please post back here and let me know how it works, it might come in useful some time. There is an outstanding bug in the package but I don't think it's a big deal. The documentation will also be located in /usr/share/doc/mgetty and you might want to read through it. It supports more than just a standard terminal but you'll have to read through the documentation to find out more. Hope this helps.

[x91936]

Take a look at mgetty and vgetty packages. I think what you are trying to do is turn your home machine into a dial-up ISP. This is possible with vgetty. But its a little tricky and requires a good amount of knowledge. You'll also have to get callerid on your home machine.

[monte_jewell]

I'm going to try this out. It looks exactly right. It may take me awhile, but thanks for the tip. . . . Its hard for me to tell what these packages do by the names. I'd heard of mgetty before but would never have guessed that it did what I wanted. Slow going I guess, but a lot more fun than commercial tech support.

:cool:

[rootpsh]

I did the same with Redhat 7.2 buy just adding the fillowing line in the /etc/inittab file , my modem is on com1 ie ttyS0 , after restart it worked ...

7:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -h -t 60 ttyS0 9600 vt102

[codemech]

What software are you usint (or intend to use to replace Amicus on Linux?)