[PLUG] ISP shell access still in demand?
Rich Shepard
rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Thu Mar 13 15:32:01 UTC 2003
On 13 Mar 2003, Russell Senior wrote:
> You have a "shell prompt" on the system you are dialing from. Once
> you have an IP connection to your ISP, slogin (or whatever) to the
> system on your office network.
>
> ------
> +--------+ +-------+ ( ) +---------+
> | remote +~~~~~~~~+ ISP +-----( internet )---+ office |
> +--------+ +-------+ ( ) +---------+
> ------
>
> You dial-in from the remote system to your ISP over a modem. ISP
> gives you an IP number. You run slogin on remote system, connecting
> it to the IP number at your office. Everything just works.
D'uh! That's right. I needed the shell account only when I was not running
my own mail server and would have to check mail they had stored for me.
Thanks, Russell (with 2 els),
Rich
Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)
2404 SW 22nd Street | Troutdale, OR 97060-1247 | U.S.A.
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