[arachne] Re: Router on dialup

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On 24 Jul 2008 at 6:41, Rob wrote about:
 [arachne] Re: Router on dialup

> I'm sure he could use a telnet server on the windo$e machine.
> It's been a few years but I've seen DOS machines accessed
> from win2k and Solaris workstations. DOS can be networked.
> I'm not sure but the following websites might have some
> info he could use.
> 
> http://www.freedos.org/freedos/news/technote/157.html
> http://www.drdos.com/dosdoc/Tcpip/dos_util/dosutil.htm
> http://www.drdos.com/dosdoc/Tcpip/dos_util/dosutil7.htm
> 
> This makes me want to load up a DOS box just to see how it
> could be done.
> Rob
> 
> On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Udo Kuhnt wrote:
> 
> > Of course he cannot use telnet - one needs a telnet server running on
> > the remote machine to do this.
> >
> > Pinging, however, should work; at least it works with my router.
> >
> > On my network, the router itself is 192.168.0.1, and the machines on the
> > net get local IP addresses 192.168.0.2, 192.168.0.3 and so on.
> >
> > Pinging the router or any of the local machines from any other works
> > here.
> >
> > Udo
> >
> > -- The DR-DOS/OpenDOS Enhancement Project - http://www.drdosprojects.de

I've lost the start of this thread, so not quite sure what is to be 
achieved by remote control of a DOS PC. However, I came across this 
the other day. 
http://josh.com/tiny/
Haven't had a chance to test it yet. Does require the controlling PC 
to be capable of running Java.

Jeff
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