mgetty

[J Lindroos]

Hi everybody.
I need help with mgetty!

Problem 1:
I have used windows hyperterminal to dial my phonenumber and connect to the linux box. This worked fine, and soon I was in my system. But when trying to make a connection in This computer/Remote connections, dialing up, it gave me an error: Error Please check your server-type and your network-configuration.
I assume server-type is on my linux box and network conf is on my windows box, but I'm not sure.
Does anyone know how to solve this?

Problem 2:
I couldn't log in as root from my remote computer. Why was that? I suppose it is a conf matter. Anyone?


You just need to answer on one of the problems. That is, if you don't know the other, just answer on of'em

Thanks
/J Lindroos

[jumpedintothefire]

Are you trying to setup ppp dialin??
some hints here....

http://linuxnewbie.org/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=63537

[cowanrl]

The key to getting question #1 answered is to specify whether you want PPP dial in access via the serial port/modem or you just want a plain serial port login via the serial port/modem.
I can probably provide some help with the plain serial port login but not the PPP.

For question #2, one of the files that controls where root can log in from is /etc/securetty. By default, it just lists the console terminals. To allow root to log in via Com1/ttyS0, just add ttyS0 to the end of the file.