OS4 online via win98 pc?

[Wilse]

Hi folks,

Can anyone give me an idiots guide to using a win98 pc, with external
modem, as a gateway for my A1?

I have cat 5 cabling (not sure if it's crossover - how do you tell?)
and an Ethernet card has been installed in the PC.

I also have a DLink Ethernet hub.


Cheers people,

[KennyR]

Set your PC's ethernet card's IP address as 192.168.2.1.

On OS4 it should be like this: Go to your A1, set the (Roadshow?) Amiga IP to 192.168.2.2, with gateway 192.268.2.1. Put Roadshow online.

That should be it. Report any problems and I'll try to tell you where you're going wrong, but remember I don't have Roadshow.

[Holley]

Ummm, does Win98 have internet connection sharing?  I thought it was just XP ... but then I've never tried to rig less than one phone line per computer :-?

[mikeymike]

I think it might do, but whether it works...

[scholle]

If Win98 connection sharing doesn't work at once, try
WinRoute. It's easy to install, fast and reliable.

Greetings,

Scholle

[KennyR]

Uhm, yeah, Win98 doesn't have gate software. Win98 SE does.

[Wilse]

I'm fairly sure it's win98SE (I'll check when I go downstairs).

Where would I find the Internet Connection Sharing requester?

[KennyR]

I wouldn't know, I only had 98... :-(

I remember now that I used my Amiga as the gate when I did this myself, not the PC, sorry for that. Connection sharing might be automatic on SE, just try setting it up with the IPs as I wrote below. If it doesn't work, Wingate is a very easy to set up option, and certainly more worthwhile than the reviled ICS.

[Wilse]

@Kenny:

Where do I set IP address on the PC?


Cheers again,

[KennyR]

Go to the control panel, select network. You should see two entries called "TCP/IP" - one for your network card, one for your modem. Click the entry for the network card, and it has a tab called IP Address. Go to "Specify an IP address" and enter it there. For the "subnet" box
use 255.255.255.0 if you are in doubt what to enter there.

[Wilse]

@Kenny:

Cheers for the help.

On the A1, the subnet box only allows two characters before the first '.', i.e, instead of 265.265.2.2, I get to 26, then it won't let me type another number until I type '.'.

I have the connection A1 -> Ethernet hub -> uplink socket, ethernet hub port 1x -> PC Ethernet card.

[odin]

Uhm....265? 255 is the max value (8 bits) in those fields I think.

[Naeem]

Actually...

I havent got an A1 box yet, but I do have an XP box and have set up conenction sharing with 2 other Windoze boxes.

Linux has a windows compatible RDP client. (rdesktop / tsclient).  Is there something similar for the A1?

I'd love to consign my XP pro box to the back of my wardrobe and use my soon to be purchased A1 to do all.

[Wilse]

@odin:

Whoops, silly me.

But that must mean Gateway 192.268.2.1 is wrong too, oder?

[KennyR]

Uh, yeah. That should be 168 - damn typos. :-x

Actually that number doesn't really matter. 192.168.x.x is used for LANs generally because it doesn't clash with internet IPs.

192.168.2.1 - PC

192.168.2.2 - A1

That should be it. Sorry for typo.

I really recommend a router, by the way; you can get all of your machines online at the same time, Peg, PC and A1, and transfer files between them all, with no need for gate software or having one machine on all the time.