Amiga To PC via pcmcia network

[EdKing]

It can be quite an adventure networking an Amiga to a PC. I have got as far as being able to access my Amiga from my PC, I still can't access my PC from my Amiga. First you will need a TCP/IP stack, such as Miami, or AmiTCP, then you will need the Samba package. Setting up Samba can be quite a challenge, especially if you don't have any networking experience. The documentation for Samba is not the greatest. If you want to try this I will give you as much help as I can.

Ed King

[EdKing]

All I needed to access the Amiga files from my PC through LAN, was to edit the config file in Samba. There is a line saying something about workgroup. I edited it to MSHOME, and then I could do a search for the IP, and all drives came up on the PC side.

I can see the drives on the PC's, I just can't access them. When I try to run smbfs, I get some sort of input/output error. Is there another way to access them other than smbfs ?

Ed King

[EdKing]

smbfs - I also have I/O errors, but starting it over and over again helps...  Nothing to configure, all information to be specified as parameters on startup (I use: user, password, service, domain).
It seems to be not perfect as I observed it misses the files, when specified with template, also I experienced system crashes, while working with it. But I use it mainly in the way:
Force it to work
Copy localy to Amiga disk
Reboot

I tried to keep running it again and again, with the following results,

When I try to hookup to my desktop I get an input/output error, 5 i think.

When I try to connect to my laptop, it crashes my Amiga.

I can get it to hook up the Amiga to itself, but that is not very useful.

Does anyone know how to use Samba to access a PC from an Amiga ?

Ed King