Modem Pooling with Samba

[Sanders, Peter]

Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 15:50:31 +0100
From: Jonathan Cort <jcort at medisys.co.uk>

>Has anyone used samba v2.0 to share pooled modems. I have a large pool of 
>identical modems available as a single TCP service on a terminal server
with 
>Samba running under HP-UX 10.20 . Any ideas how to make this modems an 
>accessible share for Windows 95 clients

You don't need to use Samba for that purpose (I don't think it's possible
anyway).
There is an excellent little program called mserver which runs well under
Linux
but doesn't seem to be specific to a particular unix.   At the W95 end there
is a good com-port redirector available at this URL:-

http://www.tactical-sw.com/

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