Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:16:34 +0930, Greg Mayman wrote: > On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:33:53 +1000, Ron Clarke wrote: >> Try using 192.168.1.1 >> or 192.168.1.2 >> With only two computers in the LAN, these are the most likely >> addresses, one for each. > Glenn sent me his configuration and batch files for EZNOS, and told me > to use 192.168.1.100 which is what they are set up for, and which works > for him. But it won't work for me. > Your suggestion sounds intuitively correct, although in my experience > things are rarely that simple. What "stands to reason" is almost always > wrong. > However, I am not one to let that stand in my way. I ran the DOS comp in > the Ethernet boot which loaded the Ethernet driver and packet driver and > started EZnos, then fired up the XP (it won't connect if the other > ethernet is not ready and waiting when it boots). > Initial check: placing the cursor over the LAN icon in the status bar of > the XP gave the message: > Local Area Connection > Speed: 100.0 Mbps > Status: connected > I opened LeapFTP and entered the address 192.168.1.1 and got the > message: "Connection failed (No route to host)." > Repeated with 192.168.1.2 and got the same result. > Tried again with 192.186.1.100, but it was the same. > Ah, well, I'll try almost anything at this stage. There must be > something that works <GGG> 192.168.1.100 is the IP address assigned by _my_ router to _my_ DOS machine. _______________________________^^____________ ^^ You will need to edit autoexec.lan to use the IP address assigned by _your_ router to _your_ DOS machine. _^^^^_____________^^^^ You will also need to change these to point to the IP address of your router itself. route add 192.168.1.1/16 eth0 #4.224/16 eth0 # The default route [gateway] 192.168.0.1 for local network eth0 # change: to your gateway route add default eth0 192.168.1.1 # Add domain name server (Change to your DNS server). # change: to your domain name server. domain addserver 192.168.0.1 (if you have a router/DSL modem combo.... same as 1st 2) if [like mine], your setup is router separate from DSL modem.... this 3rd one is the IP of the DSL modem) And of-course, if you're not concerned with using this setup to contact the 'outside world' ... the 3rd one is irrelevant. _______________________________________________________________ Once you have all of the correct IPs.... log onto the EZNOS2 FTP server from the WinXP machine by contacting that IP address assigned by your router to your DOS machine like so in any web browser..... ftp://username:password@ipaddress/ (replace with actual username/password combo & actual numeric IP) That will result in a dir listing of the drive:\dir\ that you setup via this line in c:\nos\etc\ftpusers username password c:\nos\ftp\pub 2 In my case..... glennmcc quark g:\ 2 Gives me full read & write access to all files & dirs on drive G: ___________________________________________________________________ Since autoexec.lan also starts the HTTP server..... again using any web browser.... http://IPaddress_assigned_by_your_router_to_your_DOS_machine/ (replace with actual numeric IP address) That will result in viewing this file from the DOS machine.... c:\nos\www\index.htm ____________________________________________________________________ Now.... is all of the above just about as clear as mud ??? ;-) -- Glenn http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/doc/msdog.html http://www.glennmcc.org/ http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.table.html Arachne at FreeLists -- Arachne, The Premier GPL Web Browser/Suite for DOS --