Re: Connecting //gs to XP

[mlgstudios@yahoo.com (mlgstudios)]

Jeff Blakeney <CUTjblakeney@sympatico.ca> wrote in message news:<rcmok09b88lssqc6uf2ubhpu24okog88vv@4ax.com>...
> On 18 Sep 2004 07:27:07 -0700, mlgstudios@yahoo.com (mlgstudios)
> wrote:
> 
> >"Smohn Jith" <khorster@optonline.net> wrote in message news:<VhM1d.4517$4p6.3010626@news4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net>...
> >> I'm trying to connect my //gs to my Windows XP machine using Marinetti.  I 
> >> have the //gs connected to my XP machine with a serial cable and a null 
> >> modem currently, and would like to us the XP machine as a gateway to the 
> >> internet...Any suggestions?
> >
> >I apologize for hijacking this thread, but can this Marinetti program
> >be used to simply copy ascii files from the IIGS to a PC?
> 
> It could but it would be overkill and requires extra steps.  If all
> you want to do is copy ASCII files from the IIgs to a PC then you
> would be best off just using communications software on the IIgs
> (Spectrum, ProTERM or other) and the PC (HyperTerminal or other) and
> connecting the two machines together with a null-modem cable.
> 
> Using Marinetti to copy files still requires that the machines be
> connected together by a null-modem cable but you have to install
> Marinetti and some other application to do the actual transfer.  You
> can use gwftp or SAFE (both are FTP clients and SAFE requires
> Spectrum) to upload files from the IIgs to the PC.  However, you'd
> also have to set up some way to do a TCP/IP connection between the
> machines (which is what this thread is about) and an FTP server on the
> PC for this to work.
> 
> Another option, if we can get a TCP/IP connection between the IIgs and
> PC, would be to use Marinetti v3 on the IIgs and run Casper, the web
> page server, and use a web browser on the PC to connect to the IIgs to
> download files.
> 
> The above is assuming you are running some version of Windows on the
> PC.  The current problem we have is that the dial-up server option,
> that has been in Windows since 95 I believe, requires a Microsoft
> variation of the CHAP protocol to get a connection running.  If you
> are using some version of UNIX then you can get a TCP/IP connection
> going between the IIgs and PC and do either of the above.



Ahhh, thanks.  I started another thread and think I've found a viable
solution to this problem.

Thanks for your help!

Matt