Remote login to DOS?

David Muir muir at convex.com
Tue Jan 15 10:47:58 AEST 1991


In <1991Jan11.193729.14336 at cbnewsl.att.com> spf at cbnewsl.att.com (Steve Frysinger of Blue Feather Farm) writes:

>I'm trying to get up to speed on the various ways in which one can set
>up a pc for remote login.  I'm familiar with the obvious method -
>running Unix on the pc - but that leaves some difficulty (to say the
>least) in getting to dos applications.  I suspect there are dos-based
>solutions to this problem (don't some bbs's run in dos environments?),
>but I'm not familiar with them.

>So if someone should share a short summary of remote login support for
>dos (and the identity of the associated software) I'd be very grateful.

>Thanks! Steve

>***
>Thou art beside thyself.  Much learning hath made thee mad.
>		-- Festus (the one in Acts, not Dodge City!)

>We are made of dreams and bones...
>		-- Dave Mallet: "The Garden Song"

You might check into PROCOMM PLUS.  It is a communications pacakge for
msdos that has a "host mode" that allows remote users to log onto 
your system.  It uses passwords and has and allows you to privliges.

* Dave *



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