A question for the experienced network users:

Does any software for MorphOS exist which would allow me to log into my Pegasos in a secure way via the internet from another Pegasos (also running MorphOS) and give me full access to it?

Ideally I'd like to access and use the same Microdot2 installation on one of the Pegs from both of them. Or at least just copy over the MD2 database remotely from one Pegasos to the other from time to time.

This would save me to go through the hundreds of e-mails (mainly spam) twice - once daily during the week at work on the Pegasos I and a second time at the weekend at home on the Pegasos II (once it will be delivered, of course).

Many thanks in advance,
Martin.

Pronet gave this possibilitie on the Amiga I remember, however that was several years since I used that. Dont know if it works in MorphOS.

Drive just showed up as an ordinary drive.

Amiganetfs is the only one I know, drive shows also up on the desktop, or maybe telnet, where you can start a shellwindow.

Hello Gunne!

Thank you for the information!

Will try to find out how to setup such a thing per telnet - but if someone knows an overview or even step by step "walkthrough" for this, I'd be very grateful for any help, since I'm completely clueless regarding this topic.

I dont remember how Pronet work, but should be in the guide, if it works on MorphOS.

For amiganetfs, you have to add this in service in your TCP-stack, if you are running MiamiDX this is the string add:

Temp Name ID Protocol Aliases

amiganetfs 2500 tcp

Amiganetfs is part of AmiTCP.

Then if you have two Amigas, Pegasos, you connect from one to another by;

netmount xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Name Name

where all xxx:s is the ip, or if you are using hostnames, you can use the hostname instead of the ip adress.

The drive you specify should then be accesable as an usual drive.

For making it easier we could say that you have a machine with a hostname Senex (Senex real ip is 192.168.0.2 in the local network), and on Senex you have drive with the name Work:

Then if you from the other machine specify

netmount Senex Work Work

Work from senex will show up with the name Work. You could also use the ip instead of the hostname Senex.

For dismounting you use;

Assign Work dismount

which must be done twice, because its added both as device and volume.

Such things like this should never be done on a gateway-machine. Instead if you are behind a gateway and firewall, you should do portmapping on the gateway, which means when you acces a specific port on the gateway from internet this access will be directed to a specified port on the machine you have specified. This could be set up with password as well, so you have to specify the password for coming through. It is quite much, but can be set up in MiamiDX, also if you allow a special port through telnet.

Dont know if any tip here, but maybe something to start with. Docs to read are in AmiTCP package and Miami-docs, IPNat etc...

Wow! Thank you very much, Gunne!

Hope I'll be able to get this to work with Miami (not DX) as well (but I have a DSL-router, browser-configurable) - or MOS 1.5 being released until then with integrated TCP/IP stack. Won't be able to try this until I get my Peg2 anyway.

Well, after some hints and information from Bladerunner (Many thanks!) I'll use some combination of telnet and VCON, FTP and RCFtpd.

Great, have to try out RCFTPd some day, am using AmiFTPd here.

I'm using RCFTPd here- it runs well with AmiTradeCenter, but doesn't seem to `Get' files with nc-ftp on AmiTCP (4.0 from memory), and MiamiFTP.