Re: Connecting two computers.

["Dr. Shahrukh K. R. Pavri." <spavri@xxxxxxxx>]

At 05:17 PM 5/19/99 +0530, you wrote:

As I said, the two PCs are atleast a couple of kilometers from each other.
How am I supposed to string cables ? and anyway, I thought 500 meters was
the maximum length of cable that can be used for ethernet (I may be wrong
here but I did read it somewhere.

shahrukh

>	You can connect them using a serial-serial or parrallel-parralel 
>cable, and run ppp. Or You can also have two ethernet cards thrown 
>in, and connecting a 'untwisted' cable between them, and have a 
>proper IP addresses to each. Talk to your harware guy.
>	
>> I have two standalone machines, one at home one at work. Both are dual
>> boot rhl 5.2 & win95. Both have a modem.
>> 
>> I need to connect these two so that I can access the files of each on the
>> other, preferably using linux. My clinic is a couple of km from my
>> residence, so I think I'll have to use the telephone lines. Can I use ftp?
>> do I use the anonftp package ? if yes, how ? there's no man page for
>> anonftp though glint shows that it is present on the machine.
>> 
>> pointers, urls, detailed instructions welcome.
>> 
>> thanx,
>> 
>> shahrukh.
>> 
>
>-- Vardhan@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>

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