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Connecting your Apple to your home network is as easy as plugging the Uthernet card into the Apple, and then plugging a Cat-5 Ethernet cable from the card into your home router or switch. You just need to tell ADTPro which slot your Uthernet card is in, then set the IP parameters (details below).
If your home network has MAC address filtering, you may need to add a rule for your router to allow the Apple to join the network. The MAC address assigned to the Uthernet card by ADTPro is 00:80:10:6d:76:30.
The ethernet version of the ADTPro client program is named ADTPROETH on the distribution diskette.
Hitting the "G" key from ADTPROETH's main menu brings up the ADTPro ethernet configuration screen:
You can scroll between the selections with the up and down arrow keys. If your Apple doesn't have up and down arrow keys, the space bar will cycle between the selections.
You can rotate through the options of a particular selection with the right and left arrow keys. Your Apple has right and left arrow keys; trust me.
Select the slot your Uthernet card is in.
The most common slot is 3, but it could be any slot from 1 to 7. ADTPro will scan the slots to guess where it is for you. But if you have multiple Uthernet cards in your system, you will need to choose which one to talk to. Pull off your Apple's lid to check if you need to. If you have an IIgs, ensure you select "Your Card" in the IIgs' control panel for the slot your Uthernet card is in, and select that same slot number here.
The sound option is, of course, up to you.
ADTPro makes bleating sounds when things finish or abort. I personally think computers should be seen and not heard, but not everyone feels that way. Express your own personal feelings here.
Hit the "Return" key to work with these parameters. Once you get a configuration that works for you, select "YES" for SAVE CONFIG and hit Return.
This will save ADTPROETH.CONF to the same place where you started ADTPro from. When you start ADTPROETH again, it will use the configuration parameters you saved last.
When editing the IP address numbers, you can't backspace - the left arrow moves you to the field to the left. So, if you make a mistake, just hit the left and right arrows so you can start over again with that number. Play with the screen for a minute and you'll get the hang of it.
For SERVER IP ADDR, enter the IP address of the machine running the ADTPro server software. When you have the server connect with Ethernet, it will say what IP address it is currently serving:
For LOCAL IP ADDR, enter any IP address on your subnet that isn't already taken. If your home network has IP addresses assigned by DHCP, this number might be tricky to come by. But the final suffix of .123 is as likely a candidate as any.
For NETMASK and GATEWAY ADDR, these will be the same for the server computer as for your Apple, assuming you're on the same network. If the server is running Windows, you can find this information by issuing the command: ipconfig /all from the command line. If the server is running Linux or OSX, you can generally find it with the command: ifconfig en0 or ifconfig eth0 from a terminal window. The graphical network configuration program for your operating system will have all the details you need, but you may have to do some digging to get at them. Chances are, though, that if you bought an Uther card... you know these kinds of details. Feel free to ask for help if you need it.
Once you get your addresses set up, save your configuration and hit the "D" key from the main menu (and escape) to ask for a directory once or twice. It seems to take some networks a couple of tries to finally find the server.
Note: if you ever end up saving a configuration that is not compatible with the Apple you're trying to run ADTPro on (because you move your Uthernet card to a different slot, for example) you may need to reset ADTPro to factory defaults. To do that, boot the Apple with ProDOS, and get to a BASIC prompt (perhaps using the ADTPro diskette itself). Delete the configuration file:
That will reset everything to defaults and you should be able to bring up the configuration screen, make corrections, then re-save it.