Urgent Question

I am trying to create a server so people can call my phone at home, and my computer will pick up the ones that are dialed from a computer... (such as a person calling a fax... the fax picks the line up when it realises it is a computer dialing. or fax dialing) ... then i want the connection to be direct to my computer

I want to be able to basically chat with someone just by them dialing my home phone number. I want this to connect directly to my phone line, but i want my computer to pick up the line BEFORE THE PHONE RINGS! If the line is dialed by a PERSON and not a COMPUTER, i want the phone to ring. Is there a server or something that i can do to set this up? Does winxp home's network creation thingy work?

Requirements:
Computer Dialed for ISP connection (others -> my computer) are picked up BEFORE phone rings.

Phone dialed (Normal Phone) are not picked up, and phone will ring

I can chat with the person who directly connected to me.

Dial up! Do i need a new phone line? Can i connect through my ethernet port? How?

 

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I actually would really like for my calls to go directly through my ethernet broadband connection... like connecting to my webpage server... it would mean that there would be no worries of the phone ringing, and it would mean i dont have to move computer and all around....

can i do this? the broadband line is the same as my dialup line...

 

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What you want to create is a Dial-in Data/Terminal Server (or RAS for Remote Access Server), in fact some fax programs also package with a data program, the sort that the old BBS's use to run on back when the internet was in it's infancy.

Data servers usually require a little bit of Scripting though, since when a person connects to your computer you have to generate them a login screen, otherwise anyone can just use a "Guest" account to navigate/communicate via a data line.

I'm not sure if you could use an Ethernet (or ASDL) Broadband modem to take incoming calls because I don't think they've ever really been used that way.
(Feel free to prove they can)

You might want to take a look at these:

For Linux
http://www.swcp.com/~jgentry/pers.html

For XP Clients/ 200# Servers
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;304718
http://www.winnetmag.com/windowsnt2...ticleID/42428/windowsnt20002003faq_42428.html

 

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