From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 5 4:13:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from isy.liu.se (isy.liu.se [130.236.48.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 431C537B422 for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2000 04:13:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lagrange.isy.liu.se (lagrange.isy.liu.se [130.236.49.127]) by isy.liu.se (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id e85BDIn16880; Tue, 5 Sep 2000 13:13:18 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 13:13:17 +0200 (CEST) From: Micke Josefsson To: Fabien DERUDDER Subject: RE: terminals. Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Jared & Melody Sargent Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 05-Sep-00 Fabien DERUDDER wrote: > Why don' t you use SSH ? There are SSH clients for windows. The one i > use is called Putty and works really fine... > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jared & Melody Sargent [mailto:sarge@seacove.net] > Sent: lundi 4 septembre 2000 18:07 > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: terminals. > > > I don't know who to ask, and the handbook and FAQ aren't answering what > I need. How do I set up my FreeBSD machine to run a terminal from > another machine(win98). My cable is good(checked with ohm meter), I > followed all of the instruction in FAQ and handbook, and even tried > various settings on my com ports. Just rather lost at the moment. > Jared. > Do you want the 'Login:' prompt at the windows machine? In that case you've enabled a ttyd[0|1] in /etc/ttys, right? For the login-prompt to show up you must also place a jumper between pins 4 and 8 on the connector connected to the BSD box. (pin numbers are for Dsub25). HTH Micke > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ---------------------------------- Michael Josefsson, MSEE mj@isy.liu.se This message was sent by XFMail running on FreeBSD 3.5-STABLE ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message