Connecting Win2k to Amiga via null-modem

[jumpship]

Hi all,

I have been trying to connect my win2k machine to my amiga via the serial port so that my amiga may use the internet connection my Win2k machine has. I thought it might be possable by setting up 2k to "Accept Incomming" connections and then using Miami to connect in. No such luck.

Does anyone have an idea on how I could connect the two together in such a fashion?

Cheers!

[DaveP]

On NT you needed to install and configure the RAS component.

I never really got null modem and modem connections to work - when the NT box was using the modem for dialup IP ( PPP ) it would work fine. When it was using NULL modem with the Amiga it would work fine. When they were both running at the same time connections would keep dropping.

When I reversed it the situation was pretty much the same exception connections didn't drop just the Amigas mouse became jerky and programs that used chipram stopped working.

Not a satisfactory experience!

[jumpship]

I assume that RAS is on the CD?

As for the DUN and NULL problem, I am broadband (lucky me :-)) so that shouldn't be a problem!

[DaveP]

It used to be! I don't know what happened to 2000s
RAS support - you had better go and browse around the online MSDN resources. :-)

[jd997uk]

@jumpship

Use PC2Amiga from Aminet. It's easy to use/install and it works with W2k.

-john

[jumpship]

@jd997uk

Do you know the file name? the only one I can find is PC2am308.lha and that is just a file sharing type thing. I need to access the net from the Amiga (mainly to acess aminet! :lol:)

[Ryu]

Hmm I think the best thing to do would be to get some kind of dialin server running on the PC and then get the amiga to dial into it as if it were an ISP. I Know of someone who does that and he seems quite happy with it. Personally I have no experience of routing through a PC, I have my PC routing through my Amiga over nullmodem.

[chris]

Null-modem cable.  Null-modem driver on Aminet.  Follow the instructions (basically involves dialing up from both machines after a bit of configuration).  I haven't tried using the PC as a pass-through to the Internet, but if you set the gateway IP address on the Amiga to be that of the PC, I imagine this would work.  It may say how to do it in the instructions, can't remember.

Chris

[jumpship]

@chris
I have been trying to use that but I can't get the two to connect up. The instructions are for Win9x and may not work with 2k :-(

Don't suppose anyone has a (really) cheap PCMCIA ethernet card they want to sell me? :lol:

[Ryu]

I have one that might work, but again might not, it is NE2000 compatible but the dongle is a bit broken, You can have it for a couple of quid to cover postage....

[chris]

jumpship wrote:
@chris
I have been trying to use that but I can't get the two to connect up. The instructions are for Win9x and may not work with 2k :-(

It does work with W2k, I have connected up my A1200 and a w2k laptop with a null-modem cable and that driver with no problems.  The procedure on 2000 is slightly different to that of 9x, but just set it up as a "connection to the internet" and set the parameters as per the 9x instructions and you should be fine.  However, as I said, I haven't tried sharing an Internet connection, but can connect to the laptop shares with smbfs, and connect from the laptop to inetd servers (ftp, http, etc) on the Amiga, and even used the Amiga as a WINS server with Samba (couldn't get the laptop to log onto my Samba domain and access the shares though, but think this was due to me using a demo of MiamiDx)

You have to follow the Miami instructions in the archive to the letter, I tried a different connection speed and it failed, so double-check everything is set correctly.

Chris

[Merc]

I did this a couple of weeks ago, it is possible, but I had to modify a .ini file or something somewhere.  The problem is that win2k is expecting an init string from the connecting computer, but you can get it to not wait for that somehow (sorry I don't recall the details, I'll see if I can find the page again and post it)
 :-D

[Merc]

Ah, here it is:

http://www.mandrake.demon.co.uk/Apple/charlie4.html

Hope this helps!

[jumpship]

I have tried all that has been suggested, and all I can get is when I click "online" with miami and "connect" on W2k is the Miami window saying "Client" and then repeating it.

So they are comunicating, but not connecting

[chris]

"Client"?  It should say "HELLO"
The script in Miami needs to be something like:

WAIT "HELLO"
SENDBREAK

(that's from memory, I'm sure it should be longer)

Might be worth setting "show terminal window" on the 2k machine and seeing if anything pops up on there.  Make sure you are using "Generic NULL modem" and not one of the "connection between two PCs" drivers.

Chris