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Title: Networking Amiga 1200T to a PC running SUSE 8.1
Post by: on January 10, 2003, 07:27:34 PM

Having just ditched my copy of MS Win ME (sounds like a disease doesn't it!!) I have installed Linux and am wanting to network the two boxes. I have the hardware to network was hoping to get some advise on the method, software required?? Am not a novice just a little rusty?? :-P

Title: Re: Networking Amiga 1200T to a PC running SUSE 8.1
Post by: mikeymike on January 10, 2003, 07:31:32 PM

What do you want to do when they're networked? Transfer files?

FTP on one or both machines should be enough?

Title: Re: Networking Amiga 1200T to a PC running SUSE 8.1
Post by: on January 10, 2003, 07:50:18 PM

Was thinking ftp to start with, then a full network? Was thingking probly should learn to walk before running a marathon...

Title: Re: Networking Amiga 1200T to a PC running SUSE 8.1
Post by: mikeymike on January 10, 2003, 08:13:07 PM

what do you mean by a full network?  You have to connect the two machines together with ethernet adapters, configure TCP/IP with two IP addresses on the same subnet, and you've already got a 'full network' without the FTP...

Title: Re: Networking Amiga 1200T to a PC running SUSE 8.1
Post by: dezignersrepublic on January 13, 2003, 10:22:16 AM

@mikeymike,

your from location info type thing is taken from Blackadder right??  The episode where he pretends to be mad to get out of the army...

Title: Re: Networking Amiga 1200T to a PC running SUSE 8.1
Post by: on January 13, 2003, 01:27:19 PM

I'm just new to the whole networking bit and am unsure of the whole TCP/IP thing

Title: Re: Networking Amiga 1200T to a PC running SUSE 8.1
Post by: on January 15, 2003, 09:45:48 PM

Well, I have networked my A1200 with my WinXP box using AmiTCP on amiga and an NFS server on the Windows system. NFS is pretty much standard for Linux / Unix so all you need is a NFS client for your Amiga

Title: Re: Networking Amiga 1200T to a PC running SUSE 8.1
Post by: mikeymike on January 15, 2003, 11:10:37 PM

@ dezignersrepublic

yep.  blackadder goes forth - goodbyeee.

Title: Re: Networking Amiga 1200T to a PC running SUSE 8.1
Post by: mikeymike on January 15, 2003, 11:18:19 PM

@ Dylbags

Hmm.  This could turn into a *very* long post :-)

Ok, you need TCP/IP stacks running on both machines.  As one is running Linux, I think it's very likely a TCP/IP stack will be running :-) On the Amiga, you need a TCP/IP stack installed (I use Miami).

After that, you need to set up a network.

You'll need the following stuff:

 - 1 UTP crossover cable (or 2 normal UTP cables and a cheap hub)

 - 1 ethernet adapter per machine. On the Amiga I have no idea of your setup so I won't recommend an option for you.

After you have the adapters installed and drivers installed, you need to configure TCP/IP for those adapters.  I can't say off the top of my head how exactly to do this on both operating systems, but I can probably give you enough info to educated guess you way through.

Each machine needs an IP address.  Use:
192.168.0.1
192.168.0.2

Each machine also needs to know the subnet they're on, use:
255.0.0.0

leave gateway, DNS servers and everything else blank.

Connect up the ethernet adapters with the cable.  You should be able to get the cable from a reasonably techie computer shop, or from a college if you ask nicely.

I'll stop there for now :-) any questions, or when you've successfully got this far, just ask.