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If I understand you correctly, you have two computers but only one dial-up (voice) telephone line?
Your problem is how do you share that line?................. ICS permits you to do this. Remote administration tools do not.
Your other options would be to:
1. Get a broadband connection.
2. Get another telephone line.
:)
The other phone line is the last solution. Can I do this with DSL modems instead dial up and use some remote administration tool?
Now I'm starting to get confused DSL/POTS/Radmin?!?!? Let's start over and tell us what you want and where the machines are.. We'll try and figure out a way to connect them ;)
The first time I read the question I thought you wanted to directly connect the modems without the use of a PBX/POTS/Telco, it's possible to connect 2 modems together this way (both modems need to be set in "transparent mode").
With "real" telephone network I mean POTS (Plain Old Telephone System) aka your normal regular phoneline. You dial a number and the other end rings :D
So these 4 computers are 2 on 2 different locations? And there's only one phone line at each location? And you want to connect all 4 to each other? What type of connection (Remote admin, filesharing etc)? Any networkcards in any of the machines?
One way to do it is use a ethernet crosscable to connect the 2 machine's on location A, do the same on location B. You can use the modem as an "uplink" and use ICS to "share" the connection of the one pc that can dialout. Next is to configure one PC on say location B to recieve calls. The pc on location A calls to that PC's number. A bit of networking magic should connect it all.
[PC A2]{nic}--(ethernet crosscable)--{nic}[PC A1]{modem}--(POTS)--{modem}[PC B1]{nic}--(ethernet crosscable)--{nic}[PC B2]
Hi there SirDice,
I will leave this one in your capable hands :D My personal view would be that DSL is the way to go, unless the connections are low volume and infrequent............... 56.6 is bad enough at the best of times, let alone if it were shared between two machines.
One thing I did wonder about was whether this was two way traffic (apart from establishing a connection)?
Ok. Here is a simple scheme:
I have pc1 and pc2 at work and pc3 and pc4 at home. I want to RAdmin pc1 from pc3 and RAdmin pc2 from pc4. But the trick is that this must be done only with 1 phone line. pc1 and pc2 are with win98, but pc3 and pc4 can use win98 or winXP.
Digi ports
Might be able to find one cheap these days. **** I got like 10. Or a simple fax line switch. These switches were popular so someone could use a fax on their phone line.
Or some multi port data polling device that looks for a key sequence you initilize when dialing.
Examplerama:
http://www.faxswitch.com/polnet_next.html
http://www.digi.com look for older serial to serial servers
http://www.amazon.com/ComSwitch-7500.../dp/B0002B0IBI
look around some may be cheap on sites. Old ****.
My turn to muddy the waters.
Dump two of the modems. You only need one modem at each end. Break down and buy 2 Nic cards. Network the computers at each side (work/home). No hubs required just a cat5 crossover cable.
Use a proxy server at each side for the sharing and control of the link.
There is proxy server software available, some of it's free and some of it has to be paid for.
If you want to use DSL, you'll need new modems. You'll use the internet for infrastructure and set up a Virtual Private Network. Then you'll get a headache keeping it secure.
Hmmm. So you tell that I can connect the pcs at work in LAN and pcs at home to another LAN. Then I connect the 2 LANs via modems and I will have access to the computers at work ... ?
Yes you could set up that network. I did make one mistake, you'll need 4 Nic cards, one for each box, as well as the proxy software for each LAN
Once the LANs are set up, you should be able to do the remote access, you'll need to know the IP addresses for all of the computers.
Another solution is to use a dsl router at each side and plug the boxes into the ports of the dsl router.
10x fourdc, I'll try it :)