CDTV Parnet woes. Help!

[cpfuture]

I seem to be having some problems getting Parnet working between my A500 and my CDTV.

My A500 has a 68020 accelerator and runs Workbench 3.1. My CDTV is a standard unexpanded model with Kickstart 1.3. I placed NetPnet-Server in C: on both machines, NetPnet-Handler in L: on both machines, parnet.device in DEVS: and added the relevant Mountlist entries. After that I start the NetPnet-server on both machines and mount NET:.

When I try something like this on my A500:

dir NET:CD0

my CDTV just reboots spontaneously. In fact, it reboots as soon as I try to do anything with the NET: device from my A500. Accessing the NET: device from the CDTV just results in nothing and no prompt coming back.

I tried several parnet packages I found. The one on my 17-Bit PD CD-ROM, the ParBench release on Aminet and the original parnet.lha on Aminet. What could I be doing wrong?

BTW, first post ever from my A500. Heheh   :-D

[cpfuture]

I haven't tried ProNet yet. I saw it mentioned recently in an Aminet readme somewhere, but have no idea what it actually is. If it's an 'upgraded' version of Parnet that works over the parallel port and offers roughly the same features I'll definitely check it out.

Mountlist entries are 100% OK (I checked several times). I guess the cable could be faulty. It's a prebuilt cable I bought recently on eBay. It was actually advertised as a ParNet cable and has Parnet instructions included. Is there really such a thing as a Parnet cable (ie is it Amiga/Parnet specific wiring) or is there also a more common name for it (like null-modem serial cable e.g.)?

If ProNet fails as well I guess I'll need a new cable (excluding the possibility for the moment that either parallel ports of the A500 and CDTV are faulty themselves! AARGH!) Thanks for your suggestion about ProNet!

[cpfuture]

Thanks, suspected as much, but nice to have it confirmed. I'll give Pronet a go this weekend and if I can't get that to work I'll see if I can buy another cable somewhere. Sadly Amigakit doesn't seem to be carrying them. Vesalia has Parnet cables in their system, but no price and no option to add it to your cart. Just a link to mail them. I did that a couple of months ago, but never got an answer from them. That's when I ended up buying one from eBay.

Building one myself will be my last option, because I'm not really good at soldering. So I try to keep that activity to a minimum. ;-)