NeXTStep 3.3 on VMware player

Hi all,

   
   I'm new to this NS3.3 and trying to set up the NS3.3 on VMware player 15 on Windows 10.
   I would need advise on the display, AMD PCNET32 PCI Ethernet adapter ver3.33  and FTP.

   I manage to get the display working with VMwareFB(V1.2), but there is no option to select from display selection mode, the resolution is 1024x768, I tried to change manually in the expert setting to 1280X1024, VMware failed to start up. I use the driver from ttp://www.nextcomputers.org/NeXTfiles/Software/Virtualization/VMWare/Display_Driver/, extract using 7zip and convert  to ISO using AnyToISO. double click the VMwareFB.config file to install from the CD drive.
   Need advise why there is no display mode for selection.

for network setting, I'm trying to get AMD PCNET32 PCI Ethernet driver (V3.33) if anyone has it and able to share with me?

   For FTP between Host and NS3.3, I'm using the Filezilla client on Windows10, but not sure how to set up FTP server in the NS3.3 if it is needed and which is the app to install.

thanks
Stephen.

Hey Stephen, here's my guide -- it's from 2008, but I recently refreshed it for 2020 and got everything working.

https://www.jonandnic.com/2008/06/26/installing-nextstep-33-on-vmware-6/

However, I found that VMWare was much more finicky than necessary, and had a way better experience with the free Oracle VirtualBox hypervisor -- no custom drivers are needed. At the same link as above, I have a virtual appliance shared that will accelerate things for you.

Good luck!

Hi Codepoet80,

Thanks for reply. Yup, I followed the steps from the link to get the mouse and color display.
Any idea on setting up FTP between Windows and NS?
I will try out Virtual Box too.

Stephen.

FTP definitely works -- as long as you have an old/simple FTP server. The FTP server built into IIS on modern versions of Windows is actually FTPS, a modification to the protocol to try to make it more secure. NS/OS won't be able to connect to it. I've been successful with a Raspberry PI and an old Mac OS X box as FTP hosts for my Next machines -- up to OS X 10.6 can do FTP (but starting in 10.6, you have to start the FTP server from the command line.) You may be able to find a simple FTP daemon for Windows that will do the trick, but YMMV.

As a prerequisite for FTP, you'll need to get networking working -- with a static IP address on your network. Rob's excellent PDF guide can help with that: http://www.nextcomputers.org/NeXTfiles/Docs/TjLs_Cable_Modem_Guide.pdf

Command-line FTP works in Terminal, but if you want a GUI, this one worked well for me:
http://www.nextcomputers.org/NeXTfiles/Software/NEXTSTEP/Apps/Internet/FTP/gatorFTP.1.8.1.NIH.b.tar.gz

I needed to install command line utilities to unzip/untar archives. Everything I needed was here -- but I needed to unpack them on a helper computer before installing them:
http://www.nextcomputers.org/NeXTfiles/Software/NEXTSTEP/Apps/Compression_Utilities/Opener/3.4b/

Quote from: Stephen9569 on September 13, 2020, 06:33:31 PMAny idea on setting up FTP between Windows and NS?

Once you have networking setup between the VM and the host, NS by default has its own FTP server. You would connect from the host machine to the VM IP via plain ole FTP (I used FileZilla in the past as a windows client to NS FTP) to copy files back and forth.

Thanks guys for your feedback. I shall try out!

Stephen

Hi all,

 I manage to get the NextStep3.3 running on VMware Player and VirtualBox and FTP.
 But observed the time from the time is drifting.
 Could anyone advise how to solve this issue?

Rgds,
Stephen