Can NT (workstation) share internet connection in ethernet like win98se (of
course linux) can? I'd like to get my inet connection shared to newton too
but currently I use wingate which needs a client program for sharing.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Victor Rehorst" <victor@gear.torque.net>
To: "Newtontalk" <newtontalk@planetnewton.com>
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2000 9:17 PM
Subject: Re: NTLK NPDS question
> On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, mcw wrote:
>
> > Hi, all,
> >
> > Has anyone had success connecting NPDS via serial to their desktop?
> > I'd really like to do a lot of the transfer ideas that were suggested
> > by Victor Rehorst, at least to play around with them (also to get into
> > my Newton-based calender quicker). Thing is, I can't seem to make the
> > thing work via serial. Can someone help? Do I need a dedicated IP
> > number, or is there another way around that?
>
> Since NPDS uses NIE to do iots communications, your Newton has to be
> online (either via modem or Ethernet) as in "on the 'Net" for you to
> communicate with it. The only way to do serial would to somehow make a
> PPP connection over the serial cable: this can be done with Linux and NT
> for Internet sharing purposes, I don't know about Win95 or 98.
>
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