conclusions and lingering issues

I would say this is stable enough for a home shop. The network does eventually timeout at the mill but you only have to select the menu/drive again and it wakes just fine. I only use the run command that loads the entire program instantly into the controls RAM so the timeout has no effect on execution of the g-code. I do not know if it will timeout in DNC. Maybe somebody will have a fix for this timeout. The other problem is the error in running the autoexec bat file where you have to answer yes to two questions. See attachment.

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https://youtu.be/Ix_cvqfT540


I suspect that it just needs more time and if I were to put in a couple wait commands in the autoexec file it would get through it. I do not remember the wait command for DOS. I think I answered the two yes questions too quickly a few times and it never did connect to the laptop drive. I just reboot the mill and it almost always works the second time.

The laptop complains about the firewall being off once after you boot into windows.

If somebody else tries this, please post your results here too.