A5000 - diving in at the deep end!

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alexh wrote: Mon Nov 20, 2023 4:59 pm You need a program called LANman98

https://www.riscosdev.com/lanman98/

https://web.archive.org/web/20170201060 ... rking.html

If you're brave you could talk to Jake Hamby about his newer version which supports smb2

https://github.com/jhamby/RiscOS-OmniLa ... hamby_smb2
Thanks, I will give it a try, but half the stuff I've tried so far requires modules not present on my machine, which is the sticking point.

Deffo worth a try though.
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Setting a network on ACORNs seems to be not an easy task...
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The OS was only really designed with ECONET in mind, not this new-fangled Internet thingy. :-)
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@HigashiJun @stephen_usher

Yep it isn't a great fit with 'normal' Internet, though the tcp/ip stack does work fine once it's running, but adding something as simple as an FTP client is a complete nightmare, it asks for various files that are scattered across the Internet 🙁

Similar story trying to set up an SMB server.

I won't give up though, I'm more determined than ever!
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Why do you need a server? Surely a client is all you need?
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stephen_usher wrote: Mon Nov 20, 2023 9:21 pm The OS was only really designed with ECONET in mind, not this new-fangled Internet thingy. :-)
Make sense...
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alexh wrote: Tue Nov 21, 2023 12:10 am Why do you need a server? Surely a client is all you need?
The server was an option recommended over on Stardot, so I thought I'd try it.

When I got errors stating that I needed an updated Mimemap module, I looked for it, but couldn't find it, so I moved on to the FTP client, but that was equally bad.

I'm going to to try the lanman option you linked to today.
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@alexh

Sir, you may have saved the day. LanMan98 works out of the box, runs just fine with no requests for 'other' or 'updated' modules. I don't currently have a machine it can connect to, as in Win7 or below handy just now, but I'm going to give it a shot.

This time when I test connecting to a share on my Server 2016 box, I can see an actual connection attempt in Wireshark, so it is reaching out.

This makes me happy :)
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HigashiJun wrote: Tue Nov 21, 2023 10:09 am:thumbup:
Not out of the woods yet, I've still not been able to connect and now have an old Win7 laptop set up as per the LanMan98 instructions, but I'll take any progress at the moment.

At least Wireshark shows it TRYING to connect, which is more than I've been able to do up to this point.
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800XL and 65XE both with Ultimate1MB,VBXL/XE & PokeyMax, SIDE3, SDrive Max, 2x 1010 cassette, 2x 1050 one with Happy mod, 3x 2600 Jr, 7800 and Lynx II
Approx 20 STs, including a 520 STM, 520 STFMs, 3x Mega ST, MSTE & 2x 32 Mhz boosted STEs
Plus the rest, totalling around 50 machines including a QL, 3x BBC Model B, Electron, Spectrums, ZX81 etc...
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