Hey all, Can you help i'm looking for something that will allow me to make a call using my windows pc to my server (Debian) then through to my voice modem (my telephony device). That would be cool thx. in advance

I am looking for pretty much this exact solution. I am sorry to see that this post is so old and has had no responses. The solution I am looking for is in fact more general, in that I don't care whether the client is running Windows or Linux (either/or, whatever will work). Just that a remote computer can connect to my Linux server and use its modem to make phone calls, and/or to have phone calls made to that number to be picked up by the modem and transferred over IP to the client machine. No complicated hardware, simply a mic and headphones connected to the client machine's sound card.

Skype is a peer to peer VOIP application. http://www.skype.com/ Also take a look at http://VOIP-info.org for additional information.

Gah, I have a post about this in an entirely different forum somewhere else where I mentioned that I had already looked into Skype and looked around voip-info. The issue is that I am not trying to make a PC-to-PC call. Rather, I am trying to make a call using a remote PC's modem. Skype does something like this for its paid SkypeOut service, but the idea is that I want to connect to my own server rather than some other company's.

Not what you exactly wanted and bout the only thing I found somewhat related.
http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/fil...id,7443,00.asp

The typical applications for a voice modem are voice mail, answering machine and menu systems.

You can build your on VOIP PBX server using asterisk (just one example) and a telephone (PSTN) interface card.

Thanks, getting closer with something like WillowPhone in that it uses the modem. The issue still is that the modem isn't connected to the local computer.

As for something like Asterisk, those solutions are the ones that keep coming up. The problem is that this is in truth not a VoIP or PSTN issue at all. Rather, the intent is to use a plain old voice modem. Basically, what WillowPhone does, but with a remote computer (and with the server software itself running on Linux). I actually found something that is closer to what gtkspert and I want here: http://www.twilightutilities.com/PhoneServer.html. It looks good, except that the server itself is Windows only and that it's payware.

Yeh, i gave up :-(
i figured i'd just buy a VOIP pstn card as seen when you search ebay.com.au for Digium
then im just going to install Asterisk@home
http://asteriskathome.sf.net
Easy and pretty cool :-)
Thanks for the help!