On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 11:16:58AM -0500, Andy Zbikowski (Zibby) wrote: > | Okay, it only took a little "neglect" to make her use Linux for 6 months > | last year until she figured out how to get online from windows. > | I told her how to ssh into our gateway to get ppp running and that just > | worked for her. I ruined it myself by going online from her computer (in > | Win98) one day and she asked me how I did that! ;-) and she just stayed > | in windows of shear convenience. > > Get pppd working in demand mode. That way when you open your browser on a > machine on the network pppd will just dial. Your inital connection to the > webpage will timeout, but connection is automatic. I couldn't get that working, btw it was a dial-back connection which took 2++ minutes to get up and running, I'm sure the browser would time out before the machine got connected. And that was back in Denmark, really not a problem here with cable modem and we had dsl the last 6 months of our stay there. -- Thomas Eibner <http://thomas.eibner.dk/> DnsZone <http://dnszone.org/> mod_pointer <http://stderr.net/mod_pointer>