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Title: Amiga and Macs networked
Post by: on January 18, 2004, 06:01:00 AM

      At this point my Amiga 3000 is seeing the DSL with the X-surf ethernet card.  Now what does it take to have the Amiga talk to other Macs on a network through a router to exchange files?

     I doubt Amiga do Appletalk.  :)

     Thanks!

     Doctor Clu

Title: Re: Amiga and Macs networked
Post by: TheMagicM on January 18, 2004, 06:47:32 AM

ftp server on Amiga would be my guess.

Title: Re: Amiga and Macs networked
Post by: patrik on January 18, 2004, 06:58:11 AM

@DoctorClu2:

If you use OS X on your mac it should support samba straight out of the box.


/Patrik

Title: Re: Amiga and Macs networked
Post by: Speelgoedmannetje on January 18, 2004, 12:07:01 PM

Both do TCP/IP, so what's the problem?

Title: Re: Amiga and Macs networked
Post by: mikeymike on January 18, 2004, 12:09:45 PM

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Both do TCP/IP, so what's the problem?

Something at the application layer, perhaps? :-)

I'd recommend FTP.

Title: Re: Amiga and Macs networked
Post by: Speelgoedmannetje on January 18, 2004, 01:38:22 PM

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mikeymike wrote:

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Both do TCP/IP, so what's the problem?

Something at the application layer, perhaps? :-)

I'd recommend FTP.

Well, isn't Samba available for both Mac as well as Amiga?

Title: Re: Amiga and Macs networked
Post by: DonnyEMU on January 18, 2004, 02:02:21 PM

Yes, SAMBA would work great on OS X, for MacOS 9.x and below you might also try to find a copy of the CrossMAC filesystem (by the same author as CrossDOS) which should work fine over an established network connection and deals with evil things like macbinary and resource forks.

 There was APPLETALK over TCP/IP once available too.. Not sure where that disappeared to..

Title: Re: Amiga and Macs networked
Post by: ncafferkey on January 18, 2004, 07:38:36 PM

OS X also has an FTP server, but be aware that FTP isn't terribly secure.

Title: Re: Amiga and Macs networked
Post by: TheMagicM on January 18, 2004, 08:08:28 PM

intranet FTP is not a big deal..especially if he's behind a firewall.  I completely forgot about SAMBA.. I have that running on my Pegasos

Title: Re: Amiga and Macs networked
Post by: jeffimix on January 18, 2004, 08:21:19 PM

Are we talking trivial FTP or secure FTP? ;)

Title: Re: Amiga and Macs networked
Post by: mikeymike on January 18, 2004, 08:40:44 PM

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Well, isn't Samba available for both Mac as well as Amiga?

Do you want to encourage the use of Windows and anything related or what?

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but be aware that FTP isn't terribly secure.

*cough* *splutter*

I'd rather run an FTP service than SMB anyday.

Title: Re: Amiga and Macs networked
Post by: DonnyEMU on January 18, 2004, 09:26:31 PM

We used to have a mac and a bunch of amiga's networked thru C-Ltd's SCSI net.. Now that was fast and good networking for it's time..