On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Richard A. Sanders wrote:
> I've been following the joys and sorrows of all of you trying to connects
> your Amigas with PC's, and it occurred to me that it would be nice to
> somehow hook-up my A2000 030 and my A4000 040.
>
> The simplest objective would be just to transfer files, but I don't even
> know how to do that! (null modem cable and communications software on
> each?) Can someone who knows tell me?
The comm program approach is simpler to set up, but requires that you take
action on both systems every time you want to use it. It also limits you
to *just* transferring files. The network software approach is more
complicated to set up initially, but is much more flexible. It *can* be
done with a serial link, although Ethernet is much faster.
> Even better and much more useful would to be able to share all resources.
> What would I need to do that?
For sharing resources among Amigas, Envoy is the best approach.
> Currently I am running OS3.5 on the A4000 and OS3.1 on the A2000.
Should be fine.
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Jonas Thorell wrote:
> Don Cox wrote:
>
> > > The simplest objective would be just to transfer files, but I don't
> > > even know how to do that! (null modem cable and communications
> > > software on each?) Can someone who knows tell me?
>
> > You need an ethernet card in each and a copy of Envoy (from Haage).
>
> Or an ethernet card in each and Samba installed on both. Especially
> useful if there's to be some sort of Windows machine on the
> network in the future.
Samba has the benefit of being multiplatform, which is useful if other
machines than Amigas are involved, but Envoy does better at the pure Amiga
case, since it doesn't have to map everything into Microsoft ways of doing
things and back again. Samba is also rather complicated to set up.
Fred Wright
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