<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE > Serial Laplink HOWTO </TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.63 "><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE=" Introduction " HREF="x16.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="ARTICLE" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="ARTICLE" ><DIV CLASS="TITLEPAGE" ><H1 CLASS="TITLE" ><A NAME="AEN2" >Serial Laplink HOWTO</A ></H1 ><H3 CLASS="AUTHOR" ><A NAME="AEN5" >Willem J. Atsma</A ></H3 ><DIV CLASS="REVHISTORY" ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" ><TR ><TH ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" COLSPAN="3" ><B >Revision History</B ></TH ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision v2.1</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2001-07-20</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: wja</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ><DIV ><DIV CLASS="ABSTRACT" ><A NAME="AEN13" ></A ><P ></P ><P > How to create a serial connection between two computers? This document details how to setup a <SPAN CLASS="QUOTE" >"laplink"</SPAN > connection between two computers. Having had a bit of trouble getting the information to get this to work myself, this document should make it easy for you. </P ><P ></P ></DIV ></DIV ><HR></DIV ><DIV CLASS="TOC" ><DL ><DT ><B >Table of Contents</B ></DT ><DT >1. <A HREF="x16.html" >Introduction</A ></DT ><DT >2. <A HREF="x24.html" >On the server side</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >2.1. <A HREF="x24.html#AEN26" >Configure pppd</A ></DT ><DT >2.2. <A HREF="x24.html#AEN86" >A getty-like installation of pppd</A ></DT ><DT >2.3. <A HREF="x24.html#AEN97" >Start the server when needed</A ></DT ><DT >2.4. <A HREF="x24.html#AEN104" >Serving MS Windows clients</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >3. <A HREF="x116.html" >On the client side</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >3.1. <A HREF="x116.html#AEN135" >Start the client</A ></DT ><DT >3.2. <A HREF="x116.html#AEN139" >Connecting to an MS Windows server</A ></DT ><DT >3.3. <A HREF="x116.html#AEN150" >Setting up an MS Windows (95) client</A ></DT ><DT >3.4. <A HREF="x116.html#AEN154" >Oddly enough...</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >4. <A HREF="x157.html" >Connecting...</A ></DT ><DT >5. <A HREF="x169.html" >Internet through the serial port</A ></DT ><DT >6. <A HREF="x173.html" >Other useful documents</A ></DT ><DT >7. <A HREF="x188.html" >License</A ></DT ><DT >8. <A HREF="x200.html" >Credits</A ></DT ></DL ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="x16.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Introduction</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >