nobody@KODAK.COM (Drool Rockworm) (10/24/90)
Folks.... Over the past 6 months or so, I have seen various suggestions posted regarding networking two Amigas. I'd like to get a setup where my Amiga 500 can access the peripherals available to my Amiga 2000, especially the hard drive (sort of like nfs). One post I saw involved the parallel port, but also had a caveat of rendering the serial port useless. This won't do, as I need my modem for my newsfeed! Another idea talked of using the serial port itself... Would this solution work on an expansion serail port (leaving the original free for the modem?) If so, what expansion boards would qualify? Any suggestions? <: Drool :> NOTE: Please IGNORE the return address on this message if it says nobody@kodak.com. Use one of the return addresses specified below. |----------------------------------| | There's so many different worlds | | There's so many different suns | | And we have just one world, | | But we live in different ones. | | | | - Dire Straits | |----------------------------------| UUCP: kodak!bisco!retreat!drool ARPA: retreat!drool@bisco.kodak.com
unland@cbmvax.commodore.com (Rick Unland - Special Projects) (10/28/90)
Hi, I have two A2000's sharing 4 Hard Drives a Worm Drive, A printer and other sund equipment. I am using ParNet by Doug Walker and John Toebes of The Software Distillery. You have to build a special cable for the parallell port but it is not difficult if you get screw connected DB25 cables. I also have the PrinterFace from Interactive Video Systems. 714-890-7040. They sell it for around 80.00 US dollars. It goes into the 68000 socket and has a db25 on a ribbon cable that runs to the out side world through one of the CPU slot back doors. BTW the 68000 goes into the printerface board. At first I had my HP Paintjet connected to the printerface but I realized that it is pretty fast and got another one for the other 2000 and that is how I work the Parnet. This gives me excellant results for copying files from and too and aso using the printer that connects to the regular parralell port on the Amiga. The Printerface comes with software to change the regular prt:PAR: or to patch individual programs to use the appropriate port. It is really nice if you have an audio/video digitizer and wish to use a printer at the same time. You can also use two printerfaces for a total of three Pallel posrt on one Amiga. As to the Parnet there are a couple of ways to configure it, and by using Locks and other safeguards you can let neophyte computer people have access to your system remotel. One 2000 is used for teaching AmigaDos and I have the entire Fish Library on it. I can let the user have access to it an worry about my other Drives at all as they are locked. Hope this Helps BTW, If Doug and John read this Thanks for Parnet it is Killer! Rick
aaron@stat.tamu.edu (Aaron Hightower) (10/29/90)
I have a couple of Amiga 1000 computers and an Amiga 3000. A friend of mine who has ParNet working successfully came by this weekend, and we tried to get ParNet to work on the 3000/1000 (since my 1000 has no hard drive.) We did the cable cutting, soldering and everything, and set everything up as described, but after much time, we still could not get the net: device to work as it should; it would just hang, and at best give a requester that says that there is a network error. We feel confident that all the software is set up correctly, but I am curious about the parallel interface of the Amiga 1000. The reason is mainly because of the evident differences with other hardware configurations (such as my printer and my Perfect Sound digitizer) which require different pin configurations than do the 500/2000/3000. Do I need to do something additional to get the ParNet software to work with such a configuration? Please send responses (or flames) via mail, Thanks..Aaron Hightower