[Thunderbird]

Hello everybody,

I have a PowerMac at home with a broadband internet connection (cable modem.) Is it possible to dial into my Powermac remotely from my Powerbook and share the internet connection?

[f1000]

What do you mean by dial?

[Thunderbird]

Originally posted by f1000:
What do you mean by dial?

Dial in with my modem over the telephone line.

[f1000]

It should be possible, but I don't believe that it's an option built into the OS.

Would you be willing to use Apple Remote Desktop?

EDIT: Actually, I don't think ARD would help, either.

[slugslugslug]

I would imagine it's doable, as it seems you would just need a PPP server on your mac, and since OS X is a full-blown *nix, the server's probably either in there already, or available on the web.

Actually, hold on a second. Here:

/usr/sbin/pppd

is it. I have no idea how you'd set it up, as the man page is super confusing, but there's probably an O'Reilly book or article with the relevant details. Of course, there's the question about how to remotely switch your voicemail/answering machine on and off to let the PPP daemon answer the phone instead.. It hardly seems worth it to pay for an extra phone line just for that..

Though maybe you're into that sort of thing.

Good luck..

[f1000]

Good point slug^3. I recall that the FreeBSD website had a lot of info on how to configure PPP.

www.freebsd.org

[Link]

Originally posted by slugslugslug:
I would imagine it's doable, as it seems you would just need a PPP server on your mac, and since OS X is a full-blown *nix, the server's probably either in there already, or available on the web.

Actually, hold on a second. Here:

/usr/sbin/pppd

is it. I have no idea how you'd set it up, as the man page is super confusing, but there's probably an O'Reilly book or article with the relevant details. Of course, there's the question about how to remotely switch your voicemail/answering machine on and off to let the PPP daemon answer the phone instead.. It hardly seems worth it to pay for an extra phone line just for that..

Though maybe you're into that sort of thing.

Good luck..

Easy. make it so you can turn on and off the daemon or switch it's config to answer at 3 rings instead of 4.

That way the daemon picks up before the answering machine

[akuma-x]

I could be wrong, but doesn't the new Airport BS's that Apple just released do this?

"Lets you phone home — literally


The PPP dial-in feature in AirPort Extreme lets you make one very important wireless connection — to your own Macintosh at home. Thanks to connectivity options such as DSL, cable and Ethernet, you can call the 56K V.90 modem-equipped AirPort Extreme Base Station at home when you’re at work or traveling. Need a document that’s on your Mac desktop at home? Not to worry. If your Mac is on, ready to share files, and connected to the Internet using the AirPort Extreme Base Station and a broadband connection, you can access it as well as the other computers on your home network that are set up for file sharing."

http://www.apple.com/airport/

[Spheric Harlot]

That sounds like you need can connect to your home network via the Internet, which is the opposite of what the original poster is trying to do - dial in via phone line to *connect* to the internet - a quasi home-made ISP.

-s*

[f1000]

Keep us posted on whether any of this helps.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO...dbook/ppp.html

[macintologist]

This seems like a pretty neat idea. ISP@Home :-) I might use this if you guys work it out.