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To: Suraj Gulrajani <surajg@morakot.nectec.or.th>
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>I got AmiTCP-4-demo from Aminet for my Amiga and Windoze for Workgroup
>3.11 with MS TCP/IP and a few other FTP utils for it.. I also have a PD
>NFS (Topical NFS if you are familiar).. So far I can ftp from my Amiga to
>the PC and get and put files but they are VERY slow I get around 3-6
>k/sec.. Any idea what am I doing wrong? I still can't get NFS to work
>yet, though..
>
>Thanks for any help!
>
Hi Suraj,
I don't use ftp between the systems as it is substantially slower than NFS.
I assume your ethernet connection is OK because FTP does work for you,
albeit slowly. Try pinging back and forth between the machines. If you
see lost packets, then it's probably a cable or termination problem, or
an IRQ or software interrupt problem with your PC ethernet card.
I do use Tropic NFS v1.1a with the Microsoft TCP/IP stack thats included in
the beta of Windows 95. It's a slower NFS than the Chameleon package we use at
work, but it's shareware, which makes it a more reasonable expense for home.
The trick to getting it to work is your CH_NFSTAB file on the Amiga's AmiTCP.
The mount lines should look something like this:
ibm:/c ibmc: MR=1024 MD=1024 MW=1024
ibm:/d ibmd: MR=1024 MD=1024 MW=1024
This mounts the PC's (Host:IBM) C drive as IBMC: and D as IBMD: The MR,MD,&MW
commands limit the Read, Directory, and Write buffer sizes to 1024-bytes as
described in the Tropic NFS documentation. With Chameleon NFS these are
unneccessary. Your Host file should also have the correct IP address you
assigned for the host IBM.
After that, I set up menu commands in Dir Opus that mount the PC drives. Then
I can use them as "Amiga" partitions and copy files back and forth as
needed. Tropic will automatically chop long filenames to the 8.3 dos standard.