Re: networking through the serial port

From: Millers (atftb_at_alaska.net)
Date: 01/29/05 

Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 13:23:31 -0900

Doug Quandary wrote:
> I have Windows 2000 connected to a lan getting its IP address from
> DHCP. Can anyone point me to a good tutorial on how to connect a SuSE
> Linux box through the serial port so I can browse the SuSE box through
> SMB and run a remote desktop from the the XP box.
>
Why would you want to use the serial port? Why not just use a network
card in the SuSE box to tie into the same LAN the W2K box is on? Be a
lot faster...

...Kevin 

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Kevin Miller
http://www.alaska.net/~atftb
Juneau, Alaska