Can I buy any given PCMCIA Ethernet card for my A1200?

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Hi,

Can one of you guys who's gotten Samba to work PM or e-mail me?  I've already got a network set up consisting of Win98 & XP machines, and now my A1200, using a Linksys EC2T card.  I can connect to the network using either Miami or Genesis (Genesis seems to be the better of the two), ping other machines, and pull up my hub diagnostics (http://192.168.1.1 - it's a Linksys hub, too) using Voyager, but Samba is just killing me!  My machine is already a hack running on top of a patch on top of a hack (OS4 - Please!), but right now all I'm getting is the guru.  Any tips?

Thanks,
Mike

[Doobrey]

@Oldsmobile_Mike
 Have you looked at amigasamba.org ?
 Setting up a *basic* Samba service on the Amiga is fairly easy, you just have to remember that Win98 and above use encrypted passwords.
 Also, have a look through the Yahoo! amigasamba group mailing list, there`s bound to be people who have had similar problems to you on there.
 I`m off out and about for the next few days, but your`re welcome to PM me to help get it going

[GPT]

Yup, I got it to work.

But I can't help you, sorry.

I just followed the instructions on the webbpage as far as possible.

The only problem I have is that I can't share drives or drawers from the amiga.


I use a saparatly prefs save file for the samba changes just because nobody remote should be able to hack in and use samba for there own intensions.

I have no proble with using Miami.
And on the plus side, the install instructions on the samba webbpage is for miami ;-) .

[GPT]

What version of samba are you trying to use?
Because newer versions of samba is diffrent both in use and prefs system.

I use Samba 2.0.7 only because thats the one the webbpage is refering to.

So I think you should do the same and if you get that to work THEN move on to newer version.


Hope tyhis helps!

[chris]

If you are just connecting to shares on Windows machines and not planning on sharing out Amiga drives, the easiest thing to do is download SMBFS.

It took me a while to get Samba proper running, IIRC it refused to work because I had a mismatch of hostnames within Samba config and Miami.

Chris

[ncafferkey]

I've achieved  551 kbytes/s download on a 40MHz 030 with Genesis and ncftp.

Unfortunately, there aren't any compatible 100Mbps 3Com cards, so the limit is probably around 10 Mbytes/s, no matter how fast the CPU.

[chris]

ncafferkey wrote:
so the limit is probably around 10 Mbytes/s

10 Mbits/s - which is 1.25 Mbytes/s

Chris

[ncafferkey]

chris wrote:

ncafferkey wrote:
so the limit is probably around 10 Mbytes/s

10 Mbits/s - which is 1.25 Mbytes/s

Chris

Yeah, sorry. I meant to say 1 Mbytes/s (shaving off the 0.25 to allow for the overhead of TCP etc.).

[AmigaHeretic]

I use a "LinkSys Model No:EC2T" with cnet.device and the card works great on my A1200.  I've never had a problem with it.

AmigaGuy

[LP]

Hmm... I've seached eBay for some of the cards on the list...

And it seems like there are nothing of interest for me.

I've tried some internet retailers too...
And I can't seem to find it any cheaper than 30 euro... Wich is abit overpriced in my eyes...

Ehm, how much did you guys buy yours for? and where? What's a reasonble price?

[GPT]

ncafferkey was that on a PCMCIA card?

I've got a 060/50 and the best I've got from my connection was 483.6 kB/s and that was when I was connected to a LAN.

The limit for PCMCIA card for A1200 is around 5mb(500-600kB/s raw speed), A1200 only has a 16bits cardbuss and thats the hold back.

[GPT]

I bought mine for around 12 Euro (120 Kronor).

Don't buy typ2 there no reason for you to by that because A1200/A600 can only use type 1 and don't buy faster than 10mb/s your cardbuss won't give more than 500-600 kB/s in the best case.

[jeffimix]

/me glances at the Tricom Ethernet III card that was plugged into his '2000 when he recieved it.... free I guess... it's in my brown paper bag of general cheap computer crud at the moment...

[ncafferkey]

GPT wrote:
ncafferkey was that on a PCMCIA card?

Yes, a 3Com PCMCIA card.

I've got a 060/50 and the best I've got from my connection was 483.6 kB/s and that was when I was connected to a LAN.

The limit for PCMCIA card for A1200 is around 5mb(500-600kB/s raw speed), A1200 only has a 16bits cardbuss and thats the hold back.

I don't think just being 16-bit would hold it back that much, otherwise there probably wouldn't be any 10/100 PCMCIA cards.

[ncafferkey]

GPT wrote:

Don't buy typ2 there no reason for you to by that because A1200/A600 can only use type 1 and don't buy faster than 10mb/s your cardbuss won't give more than 500-600 kB/s in the best case.

The A1200/A600 can use Type II, but not Type III. This just refers to the height.

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Doobrey wrote:
..or track down someone still selling the NetConnect CD.

@Doobrey

According to Software Hut's page, NetConnect only contains Genesis.  Oh foo, and to think I almost got it working - that is until I got to the part about needing a registered version of Miami (following steps from amiga samba web page).  Any idea how to do this under Genesis?  What I'm most interested in is file & print sharing.

Much thanks,
Mike