LAN com port?

How do you acces a com port on a peer LAN? The desktop machine shows
the share started, but on the Win98SE laptop Network Neighborhood shows
nothing of it.

Jim L via the eCS 1.15 version of OS/2

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Don't have a clue what you're trying to accomplish. Please explain fully
and with much more detail. COM ports are not a shareable device or
resource.

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news:43db79b3$1$vaxyrchg$(E-Mail Removed)...
> How do you acces a com port on a peer LAN? The desktop machine shows
> the share started, but on the Win98SE laptop Network Neighborhood shows
> nothing of it.
>
> Jim L via the eCS 1.15 version of OS/2
>
> --
> Mo: Who has da best politishuns, 'Publicans or Demacrats?
> Gizmo: Dey is all da same pardy, PublicRats.

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:

> How do you acces a com port on a peer LAN? The desktop machine shows
> the share started, but on the Win98SE laptop Network Neighborhood shows
> nothing of it.
>
> Jim L via the eCS 1.15 version of OS/2
>
I think you'd have to have specialized terminal server software running
on the machine with the com port.

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Richard G. Harper wrote:

> Don't have a clue what you're trying to accomplish. Please explain fully
> and with much more detail. COM ports are not a shareable device or
> resource.
>
.... under Windows 98.

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"Richard G. Harper" <(E-Mail Removed)> said:

>Don't have a clue what you're trying to accomplish. Please explain

Use the modem on the desktop from the laptop.

>fully and with much more detail. COM ports are not a shareable device
>or resource.

I'll take that as a Win98 limitation. It is also true of XP?

Jim L via the eCS 1.15 version of OS/2

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