Networking Amiga 1200T to a PC running SUSE 8.1

Having just ditched my copy of MS Win ME (sounds like a disease doesn't it!!) I have installed Linux and am wanting to network the two boxes. I have the hardware to network was hoping to get some advise on the method, software required?? Am not a novice just a little rusty?? :-P

[mikeymike]

What do you want to do when they're networked? Transfer files?

FTP on one or both machines should be enough?

Was thinking ftp to start with, then a full network? Was thingking probly should learn to walk before running a marathon...

[mikeymike]

what do you mean by a full network?  You have to connect the two machines together with ethernet adapters, configure TCP/IP with two IP addresses on the same subnet, and you've already got a 'full network' without the FTP...

[dezignersrepublic]

@mikeymike,

your from location info type thing is taken from Blackadder right??  The episode where he pretends to be mad to get out of the army...

I'm just new to the whole networking bit and am unsure of the whole TCP/IP thing

Well, I have networked my A1200 with my WinXP box using AmiTCP on amiga and an NFS server on the Windows system. NFS is pretty much standard for Linux / Unix so all you need is a NFS client for your Amiga

[mikeymike]

@ dezignersrepublic

yep.  blackadder goes forth - goodbyeee.

[mikeymike]

@ Dylbags

Hmm.  This could turn into a *very* long post :-)

Ok, you need TCP/IP stacks running on both machines.  As one is running Linux, I think it's very likely a TCP/IP stack will be running :-) On the Amiga, you need a TCP/IP stack installed (I use Miami).

After that, you need to set up a network.

You'll need the following stuff:

 - 1 UTP crossover cable (or 2 normal UTP cables and a cheap hub)

 - 1 ethernet adapter per machine. On the Amiga I have no idea of your setup so I won't recommend an option for you.

After you have the adapters installed and drivers installed, you need to configure TCP/IP for those adapters.  I can't say off the top of my head how exactly to do this on both operating systems, but I can probably give you enough info to educated guess you way through.

Each machine needs an IP address.  Use:
192.168.0.1
192.168.0.2

Each machine also needs to know the subnet they're on, use:
255.0.0.0

leave gateway, DNS servers and everything else blank.

Connect up the ethernet adapters with the cable.  You should be able to get the cable from a reasonably techie computer shop, or from a college if you ask nicely.

I'll stop there for now :-) any questions, or when you've successfully got this far, just ask.