AmiTCP problem

[motorollin]

I have downloaded AmiTCP form Aminet and got it installed on a floppy disk. The aim is to make s bootable network disk to allow access to my backup, which is stored on my Mac across the LAN.

I have got AmiTCP starting up with no errors. I can ping the Amiga's own IP address, but cannot ping the Mac (no response). Also, if I ping the gateway I get responses, but all packets are duplicated! I know the IP configuration is acceptable as the same IP address is used for the Amiga in my OS3.9 installation on the same machine, and this can ping both the gateway and the Mac.

Any ideas?

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moto

[Framiga]

try to add NOSIMPLEX to your startup file

eth0 DEV=DEVS:bla...bla UNIT=0 IP=192.168.254.1 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NOSIMPLEX UP

Not 100% sure this will works with AmiTCP (always used Genesis)

[Thomas]

This might be of use: http://thomas-rapp.homepage.t-online.de/download/makenetboot

Bye,
Thomas

[motorollin]

Thanks guys. In the process of installing AmiTCP to hard disk (since I use Genesis under 3.9) I realised what I had done wrong: I configured a destination address, confusing this with the default gateway (should have read the warning more thoroughly :roll: )  I removed this from the startnet script on my boot floppy and everything works now. Thomas I will have a look at your script to see if there is anything else I can remove from the disk to save some more space.

The only problem now is that smbfs doesn't work from the floppy for some reason. No errors, it just doesn't run when I issue the command :-?

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moto

[motorollin]

I found out that the reason why smbfs wasn't working was because I was using AmiTCP 2.3, and smbfs requires AmiTCP 3.0. I used Thomas' makenetboot script and pointed it at the AmiTCP 3.0b installation folder, and it worked perfectly! Thanks Thomas :-D

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moto