A5000 - diving in at the deep end!

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rubber_jonnie wrote: 12 Feb 2025 09:17 Annoyingly Moonfish & Sunfish are asking for some packages that I'd already installed, so I think my last backup might have been missing some changes :(
Wouldn't it be simpler with FTPc ?

Moonfish and Sunfish were a real PITA and memory hungry. I gave up quickly...
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HigashiJun wrote: 12 Feb 2025 11:09
Moonfish and Sunfish were a real PITA and memory hungry. I gave up quickly...
For sure.

I think the server (Sunfish?) was less hungry than the other, but still not good.

I tried really hard to get FTPc to work, but just couldn't. This may be an opportunity to try again. I also tried LanMan98 but that wouldn't connect to any of my windows machines either.
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rubber_jonnie wrote: 12 Feb 2025 11:50 I tried really hard to get FTPc to work, but just couldn't. This may be an opportunity to try again. I also tried LanMan98 but that wouldn't connect to any of my windows machines either.
Once everything was set correctly, it was really easy peasy to connect to my shared storage.

I do however agree that it's more complicated for ACORNs, and there's also a lack of clear information.
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HigashiJun wrote: 13 Feb 2025 06:57
rubber_jonnie wrote: 12 Feb 2025 11:50 I tried really hard to get FTPc to work, but just couldn't. This may be an opportunity to try again. I also tried LanMan98 but that wouldn't connect to any of my windows machines either.
Once everything was set correctly, it was really easy peasy to connect to my shared storage.

I do however agree that it's more complicated for ACORNs, and there's also a lack of clear information.
It's really odd, I'm sure I had Sun/Moonfish all sorted and the necessary parts installed. I was trying FTPc again, but one version is asking for acornssl which I can't seem to find and the other starts fine but any ftp connection attempt doesn't even seem to leave the machine.
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@rubber_jonnie

That's weird...

Is your Ethernet podule driver set correctly ?

I had to tweak 2 or 3 settings in a config file before I could connect to my network drive.
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HigashiJun wrote: 13 Feb 2025 10:38 @rubber_jonnie

That's weird...

Is your Ethernet podule driver set correctly ?

I had to tweak 2 or 3 settings in a config file before I could connect to my network drive.
Were they settings for FTPc? Or the NIC?

I can ping anything I want no problem, even on the internet, but when I try to connect over FTP with FTPc I don't see a single packet arrive at the FTP server when I try to connect, and it isn't blocked I can connect from my laptop on FTP. Very odd, it's like FTPc has no network connection.
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@rubber_jonnie

For the NIC.

But if you are able to ping, then everything should be set as it should.

Check for reference the following picture:

https://exxosforum.co.uk/forum/viewtopi ... 81#p122681

I remember I had issues with the PATH setting.
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HigashiJun wrote: 13 Feb 2025 11:13 @rubber_jonnie

For the NIC.

But if you are able to ping, then everything should be set as it should.

Check for reference the following picture:

https://exxosforum.co.uk/forum/viewtopi ... 81#p122681

I remember I had issues with the PATH setting.
Cool, thanks.

BTW did you need to install acornssl to use FTPc? If so where did you get it from please?
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@rubber_jonnie

No, I didn't install acornssl.

I guess it's not loaded in the ROM of the NIC either, but I have to check.
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HigashiJun wrote: 13 Feb 2025 12:29 @rubber_jonnie

No, I didn't install acornssl.

I guess it's not loaded in the ROM of the NIC either, but I have to check.
IIRC the NIC I have doesn't have a ROM.
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Plus the rest, totalling around 50 machines including a QL, 3x BBC Model B, Electron, Spectrums, ZX81 etc...

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