amiga networking

i recently bought an amiga 1200 , cause i wanted a less painful way of transferring games to and fro my computer, than by floppy disk. As you all FULLY know, the amiga 1200 has a pcmcia card. I have a hub, two computers running XP ad two laptops running ME and of course my amiga. My pcs has a normal network card, and my laptops both have working pcmcia lan pc cards. the pcmcia card that's plugged into the amiga, works, and it s 3Com etherlink III lan pc card, for 10base-t and coax. And if ne1 wants the serian its 3c589D-combo. The laptops land card is a 3Com office Connect 10/100 lan pc card Model 3ccsh572BT. All the equipment works, it's just i would like to ask what software i need for amiga, and if any for the pc/laptop, and if i need to change any settings or modes or type any code in the shell or whatever to make them comunicate. And also, what kinda format would it be, would the amiga be a network floppy drive and a network hard-disk, or would it be somthing proper.

I also have an Amiga-To-Pc (thats the company) serial cable, from their package, though i don't have the software. Any1 got a link where i could possibly get some stuff for it?


Thank u :-)  :-)  :-P

[patrik]

Hi!

The A1200 got a pretty buggy PCMCIA-implementation. The most annoying thing is that you are forced to insert the card after the computer is powered on to make it work. Fortunately there is an easy fix for that, just download this utility from aminet and use it according to the supplied instructions: http://us.aminet.net/util/boot/CardPatch.lha

A driver for your card (3c589D) can also be found on aminet: http://us.aminet.net/hard/drivr/3c589.lha

Good luck!


/Patrik

hey guys, i got the drivers and samba and all those things, and theyre on my pc. But how do i get the floppies working on the amiga. I got a parallel cable, and i could have used that but, i can't find any software, or in fact software that works. I'm in a bit of a bummer situation. If any1's wondering, i copied the pc0 and pc1 and their info files from 'STORAGE', and the drivers are 'mounted' however when i put a dos disk in, there is just an icon with: pc0: ?? below it. Any ideas?  :-?

[Quixote]

inferno inquired:

hey guys, i got the drivers and samba and all those things, and theyre on my pc. But how do i get the floppies working on the amiga. I got a parallel cable, and i could have used that but, i can't find any software, or in fact software that works. I'm in a bit of a bummer situation. If any1's wondering, i copied the pc0 and pc1 and their info files from 'STORAGE', and the drivers are 'mounted' however when i put a dos disk in, there is just an icon with: pc0: ?? below it. Any ideas?  :-?

;-) To move the software from the PC to the Amiga, you'll have to remember that the Amiga 1200 can only read and write to Double Density floppies.  In a pinch, High Density floppies can be formatted as Double Density, but you’ll have to tape over the extra hole to trick the PC into expecting DD.

ha ha, this makes no sense WHATSOEVER, but i took a HD, formatted it in the amiga as a pc disk. The pc wouldn't read it. Put the tape over, and TADA, it works! thanks guys  :-D  i'm really happy

now to get samba working.....

[Jope]

inferno wrote:
ha ha, this makes no sense WHATSOEVER, but i took a HD, formatted it in the amiga as a pc disk. The pc wouldn't read it. Put the tape over, and TADA, it works! thanks guys  :-D  i'm really happy

Hmm, it makes perfect sense.

Your A1200's drive can't distinguish between DD and HD disks, but your PC can.

If you format a HD disk in your A1200, it'll be recognised and formatted as DD. The PC will try to read it as a HD disk, unless you cover the second hole (which is the HD indicator hole).

Good to hear you got it working..

oh bummer. Well once, i got the 15 or so floppies to get samba onto the amiga. What the flip do i do next. I mean i heard bout miami and stuff, but i don't have the faintest idea wat to do.

i don't even have a web browser  :-(

please help me  :-?

[patrik]

You need a tcpip-stack like amitcp, miami or genesis. It is in the tcpip-stack you shall use networkcard-driver.

When you have the tcpip-stack up and running, I think there is a pretty good guide at: http://www.amigasamba.org/


/Patrik

nah cause i already have my drivers for the network card in the amiga. i just need the tcp stack, i.e. miami, and e mysterious *woooooo* samba?

[neonblaze]

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[neonblaze]

it is really usefull

right...any ideas anyone, (you have to scroll up a lot)

[LP]

You could download a demo of one of the following
tcp/ip stacks if you don't wan't to spend much on the idea:

I think AmiTCP is free with OS 3.9 but I don't suppose you've got it...

Miami
AmiTCP
Genesis

Search on the www.google.com or www.Aminet.net

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:-?