Siamese System installation Problems.

Siamese TCP/IP Communicating.

	When installing the Siamese software make sure that you have the following working before attempting to install the Siamese software.

	The Siamese system uses TCP/IP by default now and obviously it cannot establish a TCP/IP link if your TCP/IP software is not installed or working. This is a common misunderstanding which we did not expect to find from users. 

	To test your TCP/IP link, do the following depending on what Amiga TCP/IP stack you are running.

MIAMI TCP/IP

	Open a Shell or CLI window and type "Miami:miamiping 192.168.0.1"  (forget the quotes)

AmiTCP

	Open a Shell or CLI window and type "ping 192.168.0.1"  (forget the quotes)


	This assumes 192.168.0.1 is the address of the PC server you wish to connect to and the reply you should get is as follows.

	Reply from 192.168.0.1: Bytes=32 Time=<10ms  TTL=128	(Or something like that.)

	This means that the Amiga can Ping the PC, next try the same thing from the PC to the Amiga. Remember the IP address (192.168.0.x) can be any address you want as long as it is static and does not change.

	If you cannot get this far then you must check with the supplier of the Ethernet cards and TCP/IP software for technical support.

Once you have the Pinging working

	Open the "Sisys"  drawer on the C; drive in the PC and the open the "Sisys.ini" file, it should read something like this.

[prefs]
timeout=20
comport=com2:
baud=115200
use_ip=1
ip_address=192.168.0.2
ip_port=5050

You can ignore the top four lines as they are of no interest to us as we are using TCP/IP.

use_ip=1

This must be set to "1", if not the PC server will try to use the serial port.

ip_address=192.168.0.2

	This should be obvious but seems to be the cause of most problems, this is the address that the server wants to talk, ie. The Amiga. If the Amiga IP address is different then put the correct address here.

ip_port=5050

	This is the port address that allows many ports to talk to the same IP address. Keep this as default unless you are a TCP/IP expert. The Amiga should use the same port or they will not be able to talk.


Amiga Setup.

	Hopefully you will know how to select an Amiga icon and choose "Icon Information" in the Amiga menu bar, or use the "Right Amiga + I ". Now open the Amiga "SYS:sisys" drawer and select icon information on the Server icon. You should see the following tool types.

Mode=Serial
Device=Serial.device
Unit=0
Baud=38400
IP_Address=192.168.0.1
IP_Port=5050

	The entries above are the default Serial settings and these need to change as follows, the rest can stay as they are.

Mode=TCP/IP
IP_Address= 192.168.0.1  (or any other address for the host PC)
IP_Port= 5050		(Leave this alone unless you know what you are doing)

Testing the Siamese Connection

	Assuming you now have the two machines pinging each other we can now go ahead and manually test the Siamese link by the following procedure.

1.  Remove the "sisys" or "sisyswb" files from the WBStartup drawer.
2.  Run the Sisys.exe program on the PC.
3.  Run the Server program in the Sisys drawer in the Amiga SYS: drawer.
4.  You should now see the Amiga depth gadget icon appear in the bottom right hand corner of the Windows task bar. If you have then continue.
5.  Run the MountPC program in the Sisys drawer in the Amiga SYS: drawer.
6.  Run the RTG program in the Sisys drawer in the Amiga SYS: drawer.
7.  By now the "PC:" device icon should have appeared in the Amiga Workbench and be usable as a network device between the Amiga and PC.
8.  Now run the screenmode program in the Sys:prefs drawer and see if the SiameseRTG screen modes are there in the display database.
9.  If it is then select any one of the new modes and change to either 256 colours or 65,000 and then select use. This should now shut down the Amiga screen and a window will open on the PC display with the Amiga screen.

Bingo!!

