Re: Networking a IIgs...

[dalloff@gcfn.org (Dave Althoff Jr)]

noone@nowhere.net wrote:
: Dave wrote:
: > o A ROM-1 Apple IIgs with 1.25Mb RAM and a 20Mb Focus drive.
: > o A Windows '95 box with a spare serial port and an Ethernet connection.
: > I want ... to connect the IIgs to the PC via PPP, with the PC connected to the campus network via Ethernet.

: Wow, I have this exact need and set-up myself.  However, I also have a
: borrowed LANceGS card at my disposal.  I recommend you get a LANceGS
: card at your earliest convenience.

: Since you want to do this without ethernet on the IIgs, a null modem
: solution is your best option because the Windows software does not host
: a PPP type connection, it only supports the client end.  However, you
: could always install Linux or such to ethernet the web and provide a
: host serial connection for the IIgs.

That could be tricky, as the Windows box is a 'work' computer that doesn't
actually belong to me.  So I'm trying to avoid any hardware interference
on the PC side.

: > Yeah, right, I can hook up a null-modem and transfer files that way,
: > though it's a little tricky 'cause quite frankly, the Windows comm
: > programs I have available are pretty awful.

: Assuming you agree to the null modem connection, the best comm prog for
: your Windows 95 computer will be Hyperterm, as it is already probably
: loaded and it supports the file transfer protocols you'll need.  Now
: find an Apple II comm program that also has the file transfer protocol
: you'd prefer to use.  (I recommend you find one that supports Zmodem. 
: Someone else here could probably recommend one that's free.)  If you do
: not have a comm program on the Apple, then use ADT to transfer one. 
: (Read the ADT docs on how to get it to your IIgs if you don't have it
: already.)  Granted this is a several step process to get the set-up you
: want, but worth jumping through a hoop or two.

I have ANSITerm, which is part of the reason I find the PC comm
programs to be so abysmal.  Would you believe that (apart from an actual
VT-100 terminal) ANSITerm is the *only* comm program I've ever used on any
platform that *correctly* emulates a VT-100 terminal?

: OK, if you had a LANceGS card, it would be fairly strait forward to FTP
: from the web on a IIgs, however I think a better solution may be to
: stage files on your Windows computer.  (I'll try this when I get a
: chance as I already have this setup on my desk in front of me.)

Well...I'd have to get the local network administrator to assign me an IP
address, as I couldn't use the PC as a proxy...

: On the Windows computer:
: Install and run Personal Web server, free from Microsoft.  Turn on the
: FTP server option.  Download from the web any files you'd like using an
: FTP/Browser prog of your choosing and save them in the FTP folder
: designated by your personal web server software.

: On the IIgs:
: Get a LANceGS ethernet card.  Install the TCPIP stack Marinetti and the
: ethernet card driver.  Install GWFTP program.  Start copying from the
: web or your Windows FTP server.

I just find it hard to believe that nobody has written a PPP host for
Win'95...

--Dave Althoff, ][.
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