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                                NODE

                         FOR EXCELSIOR! BBS

                     by Jan-Kees Geijteman ^ Reboot

1. What is telnet ?
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With telnet, a user with a telnet program can logon to your
BBS while he/she's on Internet!
The connect isn't as fast as a "normal" logon, but it's
just nice to see people visiting your BBS, when they are on the net :)
And another nice thing, the people can logon for local costs !
(So people from other countries can logon for local costs!)
BTW : You MUST be online on Internet, so if a user is in your BBS,
      don't drop the carrier :)

2. Requirements...
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Ok, here goes :))

- Amiga :)
- Kickstart 2.04+
- 68020+ CPU (the telnetd.device is 020+) but try to use it in 000 mode!
- Excelsior! BBS v1.20+
- Miami from Holger Kruse
- Internet account (If you don't have this, then get one!)
- PPP/SLIP connect
- telnetd.device © by Christopher A. Wichura
- IRC program
- AmTELNET (To check if it works)

3. Installing the stuff :)
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This is ONLY for Miami !!
AmiTCP needs some more programs, check Aminet for telnetd
in comm/tcp, I hope it's there somewhere :))

- First copy telnetd.device to DEVS:
- Assign "AmiTCP:" where you have the Miami files.
- Add a directory in AMITCP: called "bd" (makedir amitcp:bd)
- Copy TELNETD-DEVICE.CONF to Amitcp:bd
- Start Miami, and go to DATABASE/SERVICES
- Look for the text "telnet 23 tcp" I use Miami v2.0 so it's a bit
  different from v1.0 :))

  So "telnet" is the name :)
     "23" is the ID
     "tcp" is the protocol

- Save the Miami settings, quit Miami (if you want), and
  fire up Excelsior! BBS *PREFS*
- In the MODEM menu, add a new node.
- Min Baud = 0
- Max Baud = 19200 (19200 is the maximum for telnet)
- Go to "Strings" in the modem menu
- Now view the pics in the archive called XPREFS.IFF and XPREFS2.IFF
  And use the same strings ! Also the Initialize string !!
- Save the settings
- Exit the prefs program
- Reboot your Amiga

- Turn on your modem (if you haven't) :)
- Start Miami, start your IRC program and call your Internet provider!
- Once online, join a IRC server and channel. like #amiga for example.
- Start your BBS if the E! Master is ready, but the hd is still loading,
  then it's ok, because it's loading the telnetd.device at that moment.
- In your IRC program, type "/whois <your nickname>" or if you use
  AmIRC, double click on your OWN nick.
- Now you can see your host name. e.g. "mas01-32.dial.xs4all.nl"
  (That's one of my hostnames).
  What you see is <username in miami>@<host> so your hostname is
  WITHOUT the "@" ! Write your hostname on a paper, or remember it :)
- Fire up AmTELNET, and connect to your hostname and as port, use 23 !!
  If everything is alright, you have logged on !
- If it works, close the connection in AmTELNET, quit AmTELNET, and
  tell people your telnet node is free or open :)
  Tell the people your hostname, and just see what happens :)
  Don't forget to tell them to use port 23 ;)

Another thing to check if it works WITHOUT using your modem,
fire up Miami,E! and AmTELNET, as server in AmTELNET
use "localhost" as port, use 23 !
(See the pics in this archive!)

One thing before you open your telnet node, you MUST have logged on
by yourself every time you open your telnet node !
Or people will get a lousy cps and lots of errors ! :(
So log on every time you start E! BBS when you are on the net :)

If you want to add a 2nd telnet node (which is possible!) change
the unit (in E! PREFS/MODEM/STRINGS) to unit number 1 !
But I think one user is enough ehehe ;)

Have fun with the telnet node !

4. Troubleshooting...
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 - If you can't connect correctly to your telnet node, change the port
   to 9990 (also in TELNET-DEVICE.CONF in Amitcp:bd/  change 23 to 9990)
   Maybe you should change it in Miami too! (Database/Services, ID
   should be 9990)

 - All my users are getting errors when they are downloading files!
   
   Read the installation part again !

5. Thanks to...
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 * Christopher A. Wichura for telnetd.device
 * Holger Kruse for Miami
 * Amicom for Excelsior!
 * Mathias Mischler for AmTELNET
 * GATEWAY 2000 for saving the Amiga !
 * "Tyrell" for some telnet info !

6. Me :)
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I wrote this textfile in no time, so if I forgot something important :
mail me! :))

My homepage (and E! Support site) = http://www.dra.nl/~excel
And also visit the Reboot homepage ; http://www.lls.se/~tintin/reboot

Ways to reach me :))

- Email !

  Write to jkg@w11.iwg.nl or
           jkg@dsv.nl

- Netmail !

  FIDO = 2:283/616.6
  AMIGANET (Netmail) isn't working here :(

- IRC

  I'm mostly on EFNET, a few servers :

  irc.funet.fi
  irc.nl.net
  irc.xs4all.nl
  irc.sci.kun.nl
  irc.stealth.net

  And I'm mostly on the channel #amiganl or #amiga
  My nick = Lord_A


Greetz!