How to use pcAnywhere with a Cable or
ADSL Modem
Situation:
You have a cable modem
or an ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line) modem and want to
know how to use pcAnywhere to make a remote control connection with
this modem.
Solution:
Information about
Cable/DSL Modems
Cable and DSL modems provide a broadband
connection to the Internet over an ethernet connection. In fact,
neither of them are truly modems. They both work through regular
network cards on a PC using the TCP/IP protocol. This means that
pcAnywhere does not treat them as modems but as regular network
devices. Therefore, you access these devices' functions through the
pcAnywhere network icons.
Information about the Internet
connection
An Internet connection is a type of network
connection. The Internet uses TCP/IP (Transport Control
Protocol/Internet Protocol), a fast, powerful protocol that
transports information between computers on a network. The Internet
is really a world-wide TCP/IP network. Using pcAnywhere over the
Internet requires that the TCP/IP network protocol be installed on
both computers involved in the session. If you already have a
connection to the Internet, then TCP/IP was already set up for you
by your Internet Service Provider (ISP). If you are not connected to
the Internet, you will need to contact a local ISP. You can also
make pcAnywhere Internet connections through America Online (AOL) if
you are using the correct version of the AOL software. See the
section "Connections through AOL" below.
Connections
through AOL
pcAnywhere will work with the following versions
of America Online software:
- 3.0 (32-bit only)
- 4.0 and 5.0
- 6.0 (See note below)
All other versions of AOL
software are 16-bit and do not use the 32-bit Winsock driver that
pcAnywhere requires to make TCP/IP connections over the
Internet.
If you do make your connection to the Internet
using AOL, you can consider AOL to be your ISP. Once you have
connected to AOL, you have essentially made an Internet connection.
You can skip those steps below and go directly to the pcAnywhere
connection.
NOTE: A design change in the AOL version
6.0 software restricts the use of pcAnywhere as a Host. You can use
pcAnywhere with AOL 6.0 for remote connections
only.
Creating host and remote objects
Configure
two pcAnywhere TCP/IP objects: one for host and one for
remote.
To set up the host:
1. In pcAnywhere, right-click the NETWORK,CABLE,DSL icon, and
then click Properties.
2. Check TCP/IP, leave the other items
unchecked, and click Apply.
3. Click the Callers tab.
4.
Select the authentication type from the Authentication Type
drop-down menu, and then click the New Caller icon.
5. Enter or
select the required information. This depends on what type of
authentication you selected.
6. Click OK.
7. Double-click
the NETWORK,CABLE,DSL icon. The pcAnywhere Host Status screen
minimizes to the Taskbar.
8. Right-click the pcAnywhere Taskbar
button to display the pcAnywhere Host Status screen.
9. The
"pcAnywhere Waiting" window displays the IP Address of the host.
Write down this address to give to the remote.
To set up
the remote:
1. Click Remotes.
2. Right-click the NETWORK,CABLE,DSL
icon, and then click Properties.
3. On the Connection Info tab,
check TCP/IP, and then click Apply.
4. Click the Settings
tab.
5. Type the host's IP address in the field provided. If
you do not know the host's IP address, you can enter the IP
address of the Internet provider, or of the local network,
substituting the subnet address with .255.
6. Click OK, and
then double-click the remote item. pcAnywhere connects to the
waiting host.
NOTE: Please see the section "Additional
information on TCP/IP addressing and subnet addresses" for more
information on subnet masking.
Additional information on
TCP/IP addressing and subnet addresses
TCP/IP is a networking
language, or protocol. It works by sending a request to a specified
location, and then opening a "tunnel" to that location to send data.
To maintain uniformity, it is also the only protocol used on the
Internet. To provide structure and to cope with the huge number of
computers on the Internet, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
(IANA) developed a numbering scheme. IP addresses are used to
identify your location on the Internet the same way the Post Office
uses your address to deliver mail.
The address is made up of
four sets of numbers, and uses the following format:
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx. The last set of numbers is called the "subnet" and
is used as the address for the computer, much like a street address.
The other three sets of numbers represent how the Internet Service
Provider is connected to the Internet, much like a state, city, and
zip code.
In pcAnywhere, you can use a subnet address of 255
to scan a particular site address for pcAnywhere hosts. For example,
entering 208.146.49.255 in the Settings screen for the remote
prompts pcAnywhere to scan every address from 208.146.49.0 to
208.146.49.255 for pcAnywhere hosts. pcAnywhere will then display
these hosts in a list. Choose a host computer's name and click OK to
connect to that host. There are drawbacks to this method:
- The initial list may display slowly
- Depending on the connection, you may see a "Timeout looking
for connection" error
- You may get a black screen
NOTE: To
determine the TCP/IP address, please see the document How to determine the pcAnywhere host's TCP/IP
address.
If you leave the field blank, pcAnywhere
will look on the local TCP/IP network if one is present.
If the
network uses static IP addresses, follow these steps to enter a list
of those addresses so that pcAnywhere will only look at those
addresses:
1. Open the pcAnywhere Manager.
2. Click Tools, and then
click Options.
3. On the Remote Communications tab, enter an IP
address in the TCP/IP Options section for the static host and then
click Add Search.
4. Repeat this step until all hosts are
entered.
5. Click OK.
Product(s): pcAnywhere
10.0
Operating System(s): Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 98SE, Windows NT 4.0, Windows
2000, Windows Me
Document
ID: 2001020515021912
Date
Created: 02/05/2001
Last
Modified: 11/27/2001
KNOWLEDGE
BASE | DOWNLOADS |
TUTORIALS
| REGISTER
HTML Reformatting By Diognes The Fox