From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 5 06:38:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id GAA12809 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 5 Nov 1997 06:38:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from seabass.progroup.com (catfish.progroup.com [206.24.122.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id GAA12793 for ; Wed, 5 Nov 1997 06:38:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from craig@tuna.progroup.com) Received: from ProGroup.COM (tuna.progroup.com [206.24.122.5]) by seabass.progroup.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA03950; Wed, 5 Nov 1997 06:38:24 -0800 (PST) Received: by ProGroup.COM (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id GAA02371; Wed, 5 Nov 1997 06:37:33 -0800 From: craig@tuna.progroup.com (Craig W. Shaver) Message-Id: <199711051437.GAA02371@ProGroup.COM> Subject: Re: bsd question -- remote dial up To: eman@defnet.com (Dr. Jeffrey C. Fogt) Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 06:37:33 -0800 (PST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199711050841.DAA02957@wopr.defnet.com> from "Dr. Jeffrey C. Fogt" at Nov 5, 97 03:38:14 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > hi- > i am looking for a way to communicate from my home via laptop windows > computer to my office unix computer--would i be able to do that with bsd > over regular phone line link- i was told i need something called emulation > software??? > would appreciate your insight, > respectfully > jeff fogt > You should be able to do this easily. Are you going to use a modem on the BSD box to dial directly into the office UNIX box? Then you would use tip, otherwise you would use telnet to connect over an internet connection. The only hard part is setting the terminal type for the BSD box. If you run XWindows then most likely you would log in through an xterm, and that would be your terminal type. If not, then you would probably set the terminal type to cons25 or vt100. What kind of UNIX are you running at the office? -- Craig Shaver (craig@progroup.com) (415)390-0654 Productivity Group POB 60458 Sunnyvale, CA 94088