Networking - What am I doing wrong?

[bludger]

Can you believe I've been trying for months to get my 1200 talking with the outside world?

After trying in vain with OS 3.1, I upgraded to 3.9 to be sure of having the latest version of Genesis and the TCP/IP stack.

System specs are -
KS 3.1
OS 3.9
Elsat E1208 ram card with 4 meg (due to the PCMCIA port problem)
A 3C5890 ethernet card from Amigakit.com

The problem isn't configuring the amiga as such, I've tried Amiga Explorer (the latest version - 7.4.262.0 downloaded today), and Easynet that came with the 3C5890. I am trying to connect from 2 laptops running Win98 and XP SP2 over a simple cross-over cable.
Everything has the correct network setup (192.168.0.XX and 255.255.255.0 netmask) and I can ping the 1200 no trouble, I just can't transfer files.

With Genesis online, the log file shows "Access from host 192.168.0.90 (or 0.3 on the 98 machine) to port 356 denied" everytime I ping or open AExplorer on the PC.

What am I doing wrong ? I tried reading the guides with the software and fell asleep after the first 2 paragraphs!

[kvasir]

Hello, I've had trouble doing this myself, though I was using a null-modem cable to connect an A1200 to an XP laptop (presario 2100), and established a null-modem tcp/ip link that way. (didn't want to just use amiga explorer, also wanted to go online with Amiga using PC as a proxy) I've put up a site to do this, I had to resort to a program called proxyj for internet access. It doesn't sound like you're having the same problem, though. I had to manually configure routing tables on my network as well, because I also had a pIII win98se machine on ethernet, and the Amiga couldn't see it. (I set up a page @ http://www.hostultra.com/~watertonian/nlink/index.html to explain the null-modem sceme, don't think it'll be too useful, I'm afraid)

[JFK]

Have you enabled file sharing on the PC?

[bludger]

Thanks for the quick replies, but I have had it working over a serial connection, and sharing is on the laptops (they can see each other when linked).
I'm sure it's a configuration problem with the Amiga.

[Mark]

From the Cloanto website:

    'Users of the GENESiS TCP/IP software as distributed in the "Amiga OS 3.9" package may have all ports from 0 to 1023 blocked by default ("$ *.*.*.* deny LOG" line in "AmiTCP:db/inet.access" file). To allow Amiga Explorer to access port 356, add a line with "356 *.*.*.* allow LOG" before the line blocking all other ports (lines are processed top to bottom). Please note that this file is usually generated automatically by the Preferences tools which are normally included with GENESiS. If you change the settings using such a user interface make sure that in that tool too port 356 is granted access, or else verify that the inet.access file still grants access to port 356 after you save the settings. Thanks to GENESiS author Tomi Ollila for his kind help in this issue.'

http://www.amigaforever.com/kb/4-109.html

[bludger]

@Mark

No, that's not it either.
The AmiTCP:db/inet.access file didn't block any ports, and I added the extra line without affecting the result.

Amiga Explorer is still giving the error "[color=0000ff]Error connecting with the Amiga server: TCP/IP socket not found[/color][/i]"

It's beginning to look like I'll be trying to back up my 2 gig H/D (onto floppy?) and start again.