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by bluhippo

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I am trying to set up two NT4.0 WorkStations using only a serial connection using RAS. It appears as though it is working about half. I can dial-in and Map a Drive. But my boss believes we should have two way comms and currently it is only one way. Currently there is no modem in place just a serial cable. We have checked the PIN outs and gone through the RAS setup 100 times. Still I can not ping either way nor see the other machine in Network Neighborhood. I can only map a drive. Is this correct or is there something we are missing? Please ANY help is appreciated.

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Bluhippo@earthlink.net

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by nettek

Why are you using RAS? RAS is client/server. In your setup, one workstation is a client, the other is a server. The client can access and utilize the servers resources, but not the other way around.

You can, however set up a peer-to-peer through a serial connection, without even involving RAS.

by llaw

yes, you need to configre RAS since you are "dialing" to another machine. YOu do have a server client relationship, depending on who "dialing" to who. Maping a drive is good start. It tells NETBEUI is working, workgroup name resolved and your Crossover cable is correct.

Check Network, Services, RAS, Property, Networks and see if you tick TCP/IP. If you selected Both dial in and out. You are labelling this machine a "Server" and you have lot of things to configure in Network. in NetBeui as well as TCP/IP you will have to careful about wether you allow the "client" to access your other hosts on other side of the "server"(your "server" may have a NIC tailling a bunch of hosts on a LAN)

Make sure TCPIP same subnet, else you cannot ping. Finally check if your Computer Browser service is not stopped, this will cause "you do not see the other machine" ( you don't need ComputerBrowser in a stand alone machine.)
Check my other answer also.

by bluhippo

Thank you, your answer has comfirmed my suspicions. We have done exactly what you have said. It does work but not to our boss's wishes. He wants to be able to control the server from the client after the connection is made. I told him that we can map and access files and so on but, he wants to launch apps and I said not with out third party software you don't. He's all twisted because we can not ping sucessfully yet everything else we can do. Go figure, there is no pleasing some people.

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