Give your comments on Dialin access here. Thanks in advance!

The links on this How-To are really broken but its locked by the admin so I can't update it directly.

The Dungog page link should be http://www.dungog.net/sme/help/SMEhelp/Dialin%20Access.html

A note needs to be highlighted regarding the application of this module in later versions of SME.

The page and other links within contribs.org point to ftp://ftp.e-smith.org/pub/e-smith/contrib/DanielvanRaay/RPMS/noarch/ which is also invalid.

If you search for the e-smith-dialin-0.4-4.noarch.rpm or the earlier e-smith-dialin-0.4-2.noarch.rpm

you'll find them at

http://mirror.contribs.org/e-smith/contrib/DanielvanRaay/RPMS/noarch/

but both rpm's are corrupt and have a file size of 31.7K

A further search at http://mirror.contribs.org/e-smith/contrib/DanielvanRaay/RPMS (one level up) finds a version of e-smith-dialin-0.4-4.noarch.rpm which has a file size of 21K and works as far as installing on my 6.0.1 SME Custom system.

Finding the mgetty-1.1.30-0.7.i386.rpm is also problematic with many links going to 404 page not found. Try here instead.

http://dir.filewatcher.com/d/Fedora/i386/Applications/Communications.0.0.htm

The latest version is found also found here and is mentioned on the mgetty home page as fixing some security issues with the earlier version, but the latest version requires some libc updates for SME which will lead us into a round of dependencyitis and a headache.

So I went with the older version and will risk that someone manages to find my dial-in line and guesses that I have an old version of mgetty answering.

At this stage I have mgetty and the dial-in manager page installed.

But, at the end of my first few hours trying to get a dial-in setup running, I found that we have a 25pin cable and a 9pin socket so tomorrow night I might have a new cable to actually do some testing.

I haven't got this far yet, but this site may come in helpful with the mgetty config http://axion.physics.ubc.ca/mgetty.html