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Title: amiga to imac
Post by: on February 27, 2003, 08:30:24 AM

does anyone know if it is poss/easy to connect an amiga to an imac? I see i is poss to get an ethernet card thing for the amiga, would this work with rendezvous? any help greatly appreciated.

Title: Re: amiga to imac
Post by: xeron on February 27, 2003, 09:29:34 AM

Certainly once they are both connected to a network, you could easily do things like run ftpd on one and ftp to it from the other, but if you want to do things like drive and printer sharing, you'd probably have to install Samba on both of them.

While Samba is very useful, it is notoriously difficult to setup and configure, although i'm sure somebody here would be able to help.

Title: Re: amiga to imac
Post by: Ayashoka on February 28, 2003, 11:40:01 AM

If you run OS X on your iMac, pref. 10.2 things get a lot easier as 10.2 has Samba incorperated. That solves the mac side of the samba question.
Except for some settings of course.

I'm sorry - i haven't really looked in these solutions..
But i'll stay in touch here if no-one comes up with anything

Title: Re: amiga to imac
Post by: mbilla on February 28, 2003, 01:16:41 PM

Hi

install SAMBA both on AMIGA and MAC and you do have a nice fast network system.

With MAC OS 9.x it is more difficult to set up but OS X has parts of Samba already installed. That is Samba on MAC OS X is preconfigured to run with Win Samba systems.
You need to install some more programs on the MAC to talk to the Amiga.

I have a Network with Samba running
1 A3000T 3.9 ethernet 10 Mbit
1 iMAC OS X ethernet 100 Mbit
1 PC Win XP ethernet 100 Mbit

(sometimes for fun A600 with PCMCIA ethernet card)
(or the Psion Netbook via the same PCMCIA card)

the A3000T is the Router, all are running over a switch with 8 connectors

All 3 Computers are online on the internet via DSL.
All 3 Computers can access and share drives with each otther via Samba

My second LAN is Amiga only with ENVOY and ArcNET cards.
1 A4000 3.5 Arcnet
1 A3000 3.5 and NetBSD and AMIX Arcnet
1 A2000 3.5 Arcnet


The A4000 is also connected to the switch with ethernet and via ENVOY software with A3000T

To the A4000 is connected an A1000 with serial connection.

Theoretically I can acess all computers from my A3000T.

My PDAs are also connectec to one or another computer:
my Psions (Psion NetBook, Psion 5MX Pro, Psion Revo+, Psion 3c)  either serial connections to the A3000T or PC.
The Zaurus via USB to the PC or iMAC.

Bye Manou

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connect your Amiga

Title: Re: amiga to imac
Post by: on February 28, 2003, 02:19:53 PM

This is all most encouraging.
what I hope to do is to make a 2 machine network, amiga 1200 to imac. hopefully an amiga ethernet pcma card can be connected to the ethernet on the imac (reversed wire I guess) and then I shall be able to transfer files?

Title: Re: amiga to imac
Post by: on March 04, 2003, 03:02:47 PM

very impressive network you have there!
which progs would i need on the mac?
and does the rendezvous set up the amiga for me or will I have to configure that? i have miami, which can samba i believe?

Title: Re: amiga to imac
Post by: duesi on March 04, 2003, 03:11:34 PM

Hi there
Setting up Samba on an AMIGA is not that easy but heres a nice description with Miami as TCP/IP-Stack...

www.amigasamba.org

Title: Re: amiga to imac
Post by: on March 04, 2003, 03:13:24 PM

cheers i'll have a look

Title: Re: amiga to imac
Post by: strobe on March 05, 2003, 03:09:06 PM

In 10.2 you can mount an ftp server in the Finder as well.