I received a message from Richard Munn, a reply follows,
> On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, you wrote:
>>> I am currently unable to get my amiga to talk to the 4 windows 98 based
>>> pcs on the network (which are using the default dynamic setup for
>>> networking on win98), and they are unable to see the amiga either (e.g.
>>> pinging doesn't work either way, but does work between the windows based
>>> machines)
>>
>> I assume you have the IP addresses and netmasks set up correctly?
>
> The windows machines are using dynamic IP'ing (as default in windoze
> networking) and the amiga has an ip that I plucked from the air, set to
> the same "pattern" (i.e. the first 2 bytes are 169.254)The netmask is
> 255.255.0.0
>
>> Is it a private network, or a subnet off the internet?
>
> It's private - 4 windows pcs and my miggy, although we might setup a proxy
> server (wingate or similar) on one of the pcs
If you can, I would suggest changing to static IPs in the range 192.168.0.*
as that is reserved for LANs so if you ever connect to the internet there
will not be a clash.
Then you need to set the Amiga IP, dynamic destination, Gateway IP (one of
the other machines), Netmask 255.255.255.0. Then add all the machines on
the LAN in the Databases/Hosts section to give them names. Then you should
be able to ping all the machines from each other (once you have set the
other machines up too of course).
The hard part is setting up Samba :-).
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Gavin Kinsey
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