Re: Q: SQL*Net dial-up frommobile laptop

TBravo_at_gnn.com (Tony Bravo) wrote:

>Does anyone know if there's any software out there that would allow
>laptop users to run a SQL*Net (or ODBC) compliant tool over a dial-up
>line to an Oracle backend UNIX server? There's gotta be some software
>that is WINSOCK compliant, fakes out the direct calls and uses a SLIP/PPP
>connection? I don't want Oracle WWW stuff 'cos I have tools which
>only speak SQL*Net. Willing to pay $$$ for the software!

If this laptop is a Win95 or NT laptop, you can simply use the "Remote Access" (or Dial-up Networking in 95) component to connect to your corporate LAN. This LAN would need to have a Remote Access server connected to it. A Remote Access server can be any low-end PC with some modems attached. Laptop dials into RAS server. From there, you can use TCP/IP protocol to talk to any box on your network. I work from home and use this all the time to test apps against corporate databases. Hope this helps.

--Chris Fischer
  Toys "R" Us
  cfischer_at_nando.net Received on Thu Feb 29 1996 - 00:00:00 CET