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- This text file shows how to set up a TCP/IP connection between
- Windows 9x and Amiga (MIAMI). I found it in some web site, and
- now I've included my Miami.default file just in case.
- I wanted to do this to play Quake VERSUS mode using my A1200
- and a P200 I got. It worked perfectly.
- You can use this to every TCP usage you want, for example
- connecting PC and Amiga to Internet at same time. (Great if
- you have ISDN, cable... in the PC). You should install some proxy
- software in PC to do this (Wingate, for example).
- If you have problems, email me: 0maniac0@teleline.es
- åå
- CONFIGURATION FOR PC (WINDOWS 9x):
-
- 1) First of all, connect the serial cable with both machines turned
- off (you should know this already).
-
- 2) Next, get into Control Panel, and click in Modems. Click Add.
- Select "Don't detect my modem, I will select it from a list", and
- then click Next. Click on Have Disk. Click on Browse. Select the
- directory where you saved the null modem driver (MDMCISCO.INF).
- Click OK. Select "Generic NULL Modem" and click Next. Select the
- COM port you are using for the serial cable. Wait while windows
- installs the driver, then click "Finish". You should have a new
- "modem" installed - the Generic NULL Modem.
-
- 3) Click on My Computer, then on Dial-up Networking. Select "Make a
- new connection". Give it a nice name ("Amiga", for instance) and
- then select Generic NULL Modem as the device. Click on Configure.
- Set the maximum speed to your liking (57600 works nice for me), and
- then click OK. Type '0' as phone number (it doesn't matter)
- Right-click on your newly-created connection, and
- select Properties.Click on the "Server Types" tab and select
- "PPP:Windows 95, NT3.5, Internet". Leave ALL the other items
- unchecked except for the last one (TCP/IP). Click on "TCP/IP
- Settings" right beside it. Select "Specify an IP address", and
- enter the IP for your PC (if you don't have one yet or don't know
- what I'm talking about, I suggest you enter 192.168.1.1). Select
- "Server assigned name server addresses", and leave the items at the
- bottom unchecked. Click OK. OK again.
-
- 4) Go to your Windows directory, and find a file named "Hosts".
- Edit this file. Just add the following lines and save it back:
-
- 192.168.1.1 windows
- 192.168.1.2 amiga
-
- Remember to change the IP related to "Windows" if you already have
- an IP for your PC.
-
- IF YOU WANT TO USE PC AS PROXY:
-
- 5) Install WinGate. You may leave everything at default without
- entering anything for now, it'll be best to set things up later.
- The only thing you'll have to specify is the IP address related to
- your PC, which should match the "windows" line in the Hosts file
- (192.168.1.1 in our case).
-
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- We're all set on the PC side. Let's move on to the Amiga, which
- should take fewer steps:
-
- Open Miami and follow these steps:
-
- 1) Interface Tab
- Configure as follows:
- Interface type: built-in-serial (PPP/CSLIP)
- Speed (same as PC - 38400, whatever)
- Use CD - Unchecked
- Protocol - async PPP
- IP Type - static
- IP Address - 192.168.1.2
- Multicasts - disabled
- MTU - 1005
-
- 2) PPP tab
- Configure like so:
- PAP/CHAP - nothing in there
- Callback - none
- VJC - checked
- Get DNS - unchecked
- Termreq - checked
- Quick reconnect disabled
- ACCM - a0000
- Escape - nothing in there
-
- 3) Database tab
- Configure like so:
- Go to the DB titles "hosts" and add two entries
- 192.168.1.1 windows
- 192.168.1.2 amiga
-
- 4) TCP/IP
- Host Name - amiga
- Use ICMP - yes
- Use DHCP - No
- Verify DNS - No
- Fake IP - No
- T/TCP - No
- Ping Flood protection - No
-
- 5) Modem - Check Null Modem
-
- IF YOU WANT TO USE PC AS PROXY:
-
- 6) Socks
- Enable SOCKS - yes
- Default SOCKS server - 192.168.1.1
- Port - 1080
- Max Syslog level - none
- Authentication - none
-
- Save the new settings with the desired name
- ___________________________________________________________________
-
- The connection
- ___________________________________________________________________
-
- Now let's do the actual connection. Assuming the serial cable's
- already connected and both machines are fired up, do the following:
-
- 1) Run Miami on the Amiga;
-
- 2) Double-click on the "Amiga" connection in Dialup Networking on
- your PC, but don't click on "Connect" just yet;
-
- 3) Click on the "Online" button in Miami;
-
- 4) Click on "Connect" on Windows. You should see a "Hello"
- appearing in the bottom part of the window in Miami.
-
- 5) Click on "Send Break" in Miami. In one second you should be
- connected.
-
-
- ___________________________________________________________________
-
- The connection
- ___________________________________________________________________
-
- Now let's do the actual connection. Assuming the serial cable's
- already connected and both machines are fired up, do the following:
-
- 1) Run Miami on the Amiga;
-
- 2) Double-click on the "Amiga" connection in Dialup Networking on
- your PC, but don't click on "Connect" just yet;
-
- 3) Click on the "Online" button in Miami;
-
- 4) Click on "Connect" on Windows. You should see a "Hello"
- appearing in the bottom part of the window in Miami.
-
- 5) Click on "Send Break" in Miami. In one second you should be
- connected.
-
- Now's the time to ping both systems. On the Amiga, open a CLI
- window and type Miami:miamiping windows. (CTRL-C to stop)
-
- You can do the same on the PC by opening a DOS prompt and typing
- ping amiga.
-
- You should be able to ping both systems without any problems. If
- this is the case, we can go back to the PC to finish the WinGate
- configuration.
- ___________________________________________________________________
-
- WinGate Configuration
- ___________________________________________________________________
-
- This is the final step towards complete internet sharing between
- the two computers. Start Gatekeeper (in your WinGate program
- group), click on OK to proceed without entering an administrator
- password. You should receive a warning to create a password for the
- administrator. Do so, and be sure to have it always on hand, as you
- will need it every time you enter Gatekeeper.
-
- Next, get into the "services" item, and check if you have the "WWW
- Proxy server". If not, add it to the services list by selecting the
- Tools menu, items new/service/WWW Proxy Service.
-
- Double-click on this service, and a new window should open. Select
- the second tab, named Bindings, and check "Allow connections coming
- in on any interface". (I haven't had success determining my PC's IP
- on "Connections will be accepted on the following interface only",
- but you might want to give it a try.) There's one security issue
- that arises from allowing connections from anywhere, as your
- newly-created service could be used by anyone on the internet. If
- you own a regular dialup connection to a provider, that wouldn't be
- much to worry about, as it is very doubtful that anyone would find
- your service, let alone want to use it! For the paranoids out
- there, there's no way that someone could access your personal
- computer files through this "breach". Click on OK, and save
- changes.
-
- You now have a WWW proxy server that can be used by the Amiga. On
- the "network" options on Voyager, IBrowse or AWeb, you should
- specify "Use HTTP Proxy", and specify your PC's IP address
- (192.168.1.1 in this document's case) as the proxy server. Port is
- always port 80. Click on OK, and get back to the browser's main
- screen.
-
- Now connect to the internet with your PC, and go back to your
- browser on the Amiga. Enter any http address you would like to
- access (try altavista.digital.com or www.yahoo.com), and it should
- retrieve the document without any problems.
-
- Things aren't more complicated for the other services, except maybe
- for IRC, which requires fiddling with TCP mapping in WinGate. I
- will add complete instructions to this, as well as Siamese
- configuration for file and printer sharing through TCP/IP in the
- next week or so, but if you have any questions or comments you can
- contact me at alpharoid@bitsmart.com.
- ___________________________________________________________________
-
- Created by Raphael Kiekow Hickenbick. Last revision on 05/10/98.
-