Accessing another amiga via ethernet.

[Munchkin]

Since I now have two Amigas in my LAN at home here I want to be able to easily access one from the other to copy files in an easy manner. Something similar to parnet but for ethernet, or Amiga explorer between my Amigas and my pc.

As for now I have to use the pc as a middlehand and it takes so much longer time to do it that way, AND I dont want to really... it doesnt feel right  :-D

So, anyone got a tip for me? I've looked on aminet but didnt find anything.
 

[Munchkin]

redrumloa wrote:
Samba is what you are looking for, IIRC it is on Aminet.

And it works just as well between two amigas as it does between an amiga and a pc? Just checked on aminet and no readme says that so....
But, thanks for the tip. I'll d/l and try!

[Munchkin]

gnarly wrote:
Use Samba if you want to include the PC, or something like Envoy if this is purely for Amiga networking. From what I've heard, Samba can be a right bast to set up, whereas Envoy is supposed to be easy as pie.

Well.. since Envoy isnt free, and I was looking for a quick solution I'll have to try samba then. If I was able to configure amitcp from scratch and no documentation 8 years ago I think I could handle samba too..

[Munchkin]

SilvrDrgn wrote:
@ Munchkin,
Yes.  I use it between my two Amigas all the time.

I'll give it a go then. Thanx.

[Munchkin]

sprocket wrote:
While Samba will work its pretty big and slow.
It is designed to allow you to work between machines with different operating systems....PC & Amiga, etc.

If you have only Amigas then netfs or envoy are more useful but you're right that envoy is commercial.  I'm not sure about netfs since I got mine on the disk with my X-Surf card.

You might try simply setting up an FTP server on both machines and accessing each machine with an FTP client.
This would let you setup login passowords to keep things
more secure.....Samba would expose your Amiga to PC hackers, I think, since it is used in the PC world.

Setting up FTP-servers is not an option because then I need to change the homedir everytime I need to get something from another partition.

Security is of no larger concern since both computers are on my home LAN and behind a firewall. Of course anyone could hack into that but after installing the router/firewall I haven't had one single alarm from any of the computers. (two Amigas with MiamiDX and a pc with Zonealarm).

Netfs was something new, Samba and Envoy has been mentioned before but not netfs, I'll have to look that one up too.

So, at this point I dont see ftp as any real alternative, other than a shortterm temporary solution.

So, I thank you for the tip on netfs, and if thats not an option I have to dig deep into Samba and try to figure it out. Should be able to, I did figure out how to configure AmiTCP when it was still an infant and without any clue where to start