Remote assistance

[odin]

Yup...check VNC. But why in the name of all holy deities would you want to use a cruddy Win98 box as router/server??!

Wouldn't you be better of using a prebuilt/out of the box linux or bsd router solution? More stable, helluva lot more secure...

BTW. VNC isn't secure by itself, but you can make it secure by using an SSH remote shell server on your routerbox. That would also make secure/encrypted connections to your WinXP box possible (even though it's behind a router, SSH does TCP/IP tunneling).

[odin]

Hm...weird. I just acquired a cruddy old PentiumPro 200 Compaq box with NT4 installed. I installed Win95 temporarily due to the fact that I didn't have a Win2k CD handy (I'm interested to see how slow W2k would be on that box :-)). W95 installed nicely tho on it.

It appeared to me that the BIOS settings program is loaded of a small dedicated partition on the HD. Pretty weird.

Anyhoo....lose W98 as a router OS :-).

[odin]

@ilwrath:
:-D So I shouldn't fdisk that HD then :-). Do Compaq's usually have flashable ROMs btw?

[odin]

If I were to install another OS on the HD, something like Linux or whatever and it installs it's own bootmanager, would that clash with the Compaq BIOS prog?

[odin]

@lo
Ah interesting, I wasn't aware of other versions.

@ilwrath
Okay, I'll have a muck about with that machine in a few weeks I think.