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* How to Install AmiTCP/IP
You should not install the current version on top of older
version. If your disk space allows, leave the old version on the
disk and delete it when you have the new version up and running. The
installation script will copy your old configuration from old
version directory.
Extract first the distribution archives (AmiTCP_xxx_xx.lha) to some
directory in your hard disk (e.g. WORK:).
* Configuration Information
If you choose to use the predefined T-Online configuration, then you do NOT
need any information mentioned below.
Before you proceed, you should get the following information from
your network administration (if you don't have the information, you
have to reinstall AmiTCP/IP afterwards):
* Internet protocol address for your computer. This is a 32 bit
integer represented as a series of decimal numbers separated by
dots. For example, 130.233.161.40 is a legal internet
address. Your IP address can also be dynamic, i.e., different each
time you connect to the IP network.
* Destination IP address, the IP address of the host you are connected to.
Generally you can use the IP address of your default gateway as
the destination address, if no specific destination address is
given.
* You can accept the default netmask.
* Address of the default gateway. All your traffic goes through the
default gateway. This is the same as the destination IP address.
* Your host name. Host name is a more convenient way than the internet
address to refer your computer. This is like `Amiga1'. If your IP
address is dynamic, then you do not need to supply this.
* Domain name of your site. For example, "hut.fi" is the domain name
for the Helsinki University of Technology in Finland. The part
after the first dot in your full host name is usually (but not
always) your domain name.
* Addresses of the Domain Name Servers which will be used to
translate host names to the corresponding internet addresses. A
local database (AmiTCP:db/hosts) must be used instead if there is
no name server on your domain.
If you have an access to a Unix machine in your network, you can
probably find a list of domains and name server addresses in the
file `/etc/resolv.conf'. Also, if there is no name server, you can
copy the file `/etc/hosts' to the `AmiTCP:db/hosts'.
AmiTCP/IP uses a mnemonic name of the SLIP device driver to access
it. The name and parameter mapping is specified in the configuration
file `AmiTCP:db/interfaces'.
You may start the installation by double-clicking the
`Install AmiTCP'-icon.
* About User and Group Databases
AmiTCP/IP gives some user management support. For each user, there
is one line of information in the file `AmiTCP:db/passwd', which is
currently used by `finger', `ls' and other commands. This line is
separated to 7 parts with vertical bars (`|'):
username|password|uid|gid|gecos|home directory|shell
The `gecos' part contains real name, office, office phone and home
phome numbers separated with commas (','). You can print them with
finger. Markus Peuhkuri has following entry in the example `passwd'
file:
puhuri|*|17681|100|Markus Peuhkuri,G218,4512462,4521992|users:puhuri|shell
Markus has username puhuri. As the password field contains `*', his
password is disabled (so he can not log into your machine even if
the remote login is installed). His numeric identifier, UID, is
17681, and his default group number, GID, is 100, `users'. The UID
and GID must be numbers between 0 - 65535. After his real name there
is his office room at HUT, is work phone and his home phone. His
home directory is `users:puhuri', finger searches his `.plan' and
`.project' files from that directory. Last field is his login shell,
AmiTCP/IP does not currently use that for anything.
You can add and remove users simply editing your `passwd' file with
text editors (Emacs, Ed, Edit). Make sure that finger can parse the
changed file and finger each user that you have changed.
The passwd file format is mostly compatible with MultiUser by Geert
Uytterhoeven and with AS225r2 beta from Commodore. But,
unfortunately, the password encryption methods are different. So,
you could use an MuFS or AS225r2 password file as a template, but
you should remove all the password fields, and then use "passwd"
command to set the passwords again.
The group file, `AmiTCP:db/group' has similar format.
* If There are Problems with Installation
Here is an example of the required information:
The default user name (and login name): joe
joe user id: 200
joe group id: 100
Real name for the joe: Joe the User
joe home directory: AmiTCP:home
<in this point joe password is prompted>
Dynamic connection: no
Name of your computer: slip-2
Your domain part: hut.fi
Aliases for it: amy
Interface type: CSLIP
Specific network interface: cslip0
Your Internet address: 130.233.161.50
Destination address (the gateway): 130.233.161.254
cslip0 MTU: 576
Netmask of used in your network: <default>
Serial device driver to be used: serial.device
Unit number for the serial.device: 0
Serial line baud rate: 9600
Additional rhslip options: CTS/RTS, EOF-mode
Address of the default gateway: 130.233.161.254
Addresses of nameservers: 130.233.224.1
130.233.224.13
128.214.4.29
Domain names to search: hut.fi
cs.hut.fi
AmiTCP/IP started at system startup: no
Let installer modify s:user-startup: yes
From above information `Install AmiTCP' creates/modifies following files:
`AmiTCP:bin/startnet'
`Amitcp:db/resolv.conf'
`S:user-startup'
Following line was added to the db/passwd:
joe|WexZI/fvHxNdo|200|100|Joe the User|AmiTCP:home|shell
EOF