| Active |
Check this box if you want to enable this particular
connection. |
| Remote Host |
Name (or IP address) of your FTP server (e.g.
ftp.alpha.edu). Do NOT put any paths or directory names into this field (the remote path
must be specified together with the name of the remote file). Hint:
If you enter the value <!--skip--> DynamIP will NOT upload the updated local file to your
remote host. This is useful if you want to test whether your template gets updated
properly. Alternatively, you can use <!--skip--> if you want to update files on your local server (there is no need to use FTP to
update files on your local server, simply point to local file to the appropriate location
and updating the local file is all you have to do to update the file on your local
server...). |
| Login |
Your login id (for the FTP server). |
| Password |
Your password (for the FTP server). Warning: although all
passwords are encrypted before they get stored to the file DynamIP.INI you should
be aware of the fact that the encryption algorithm is rather simple and won't hold up
serious hackers for too long... |
| Template ONline |
Path and file name of the ONline template (the file
containing place holders for IP address, Date and Time, etc. that will be uploaded to the
server when you go ONline); this file is a read-only file and DynamIP
will never change this file. The updated file will be stored as LocalFile. Make sure that
the template file name is different from the local file name; DynamIP
does NOT work properly if these two file names are identical! Hint:
If you enter the value <!--skip--> DynamIP will upload the raw local file without
changing it. This is useful if you want to upload WebCam pictures (see also "refresh
every"). |
| Template OFFline |
Usually the same as Template ONline. However, if you want
to upload a different page when you go OFFline you can choose a different template here. Hint:
If you enter the value <!--skip--> DynamIP will upload the raw local file without
changing it. This is useful if you want to upload WebCam pictures (see also "refresh
every"). |
| Local File |
Path and file name of the updated file (local copy). Make
sure that the template file names are different from this local file name; DynamIP
does NOT work properly if these two file names are identical! |
| Remote
File |
Path and file name of the remote file (the Local File will
be uploaded to this location). If your HTML file goes into your root directory on the
server then you don't need to specify the path (e.g. DYNAMIP.HTM will work fine). However,
you can specify the path if your HTML file must go into a particular directory (e.g.
WWW/DYNAMIP.HTM if the file goes into your directory WWW). Do NOT put the IP address or
the host name into this field! Tip for
GeoCities users:
You should NOT enter any directory information as you are automatically logged into your
home directory. Only the file name is needed, e.g. DYNAMIP.HTM. |
| IP |
This is the place holder for your IP address in your
template; this can be any string you like (NOT.ON.LINE.NOW
works just fine and is probably quite useful). This entry must obviously agree with the
appropriate text string in your template, so that DynamIP can
replace it with your current IP address before the file gets uploaded.
Note:
The strings for IP, DateTime,
WEBchat, HTTP
Server, and FTP Server must
be different if you don't want to end up with a total mess being posted… |
| post
last IP (OFFline) |
Place holder for the last known IP address (<!--IPlastknown--> is the default
value). This entry must obviously agree with the appropriate text string in your template. Note that you must check the appropriate box just to the left of this text field
if you want DynamIP to write the last know IP address to the
OFFline web page (it won't work with the ONline web page as your current IP address is
posted there). |
| DateTime |
Place holder for the current date/time; this can be any
string you like ($DateTime works
just fine). This entry must obviously agree with the appropriate text string in your
template. |
| HTTP
Server|Port |
Place holder for your HTTP server. This is NOT the IP
address (or the URL) of your web server, but a placeholder which DynamIP
will replace with a piece of HTML code that will become a link to the HTTP server at your
current IP address. This entry must obviously agree with the appropriate text string in
your template. The default value is HTTP
Server NOT available. You can specify a port number
for your web server (the default value is 80). |
| FTP
Server|Port |
Place holder for your FTP server. This is NOT the IP
address (or URL) of your FTP server, but a placeholder which DynamIP
will replace with a piece of HTML code that will become a link to the FTP server at your
current IP address. This entry must obviously agree with the appropriate text string in
your template. The default value is FTP
Server NOT available. You can specify a port number
for your FTP server (the default value is 21). |
| FTP UserID |
User ID that is inserted into the template if you check
FTP Server. Default value is anonymous,
but you can change this if you want your users to login with a particular ID (for example
to find out from which particular web site they access your FTP server). |
WEBcam |
,,, |
Place holder for the link to the WEBcam picture file (<!--WEBcam--> is the default
value). This entry must obviously agree with the appropriate text string in your template.
Note that you must check the appropriate box just to the left of this text field if you want DynamIP
to update the WEBcam place holder with a link to the remote WEBcam
picture. |
... |
New Frame |
If this option is checked DynamIP
will capture a new frame from your camera just before the place holder for the link to the
WEBcam picture is updated. Note that the Active
box must be checked in Setup|WEBcam, otherwise the
setting of New Frame is disregarded. |
| Remote
WEBcam File | |
Path and file name of the remote WEBcam file (the local
JPEG capture file will be uploaded to this location). Note that
you must check the box to the left of this text field if you want DynamIP
to actually upload the file.
It is probably safest to upload the remote WEBcam file to the same
directory as the Remote File, especially if you checked the WEBcam box and want DynamIP to automatically update the link
to this remote WEBcam picture. If you don't specify a path in this field
DynamIP will upload the Remote WEBcam file to the same path as the Remote
File. If you specify a path, please note that the path is interpreted as
relative to the path of the Remote File. Example:
To upload the remote file to WWW\index.htm you specify WWW\index.htm
in the Remote File box. To
upload the Remote WEBcam file to WWW\images\capture.jpg you specify images\capture.jpg
in the Remote WEBcam File
box.
Do NOT put the IP address or the host name into this field!
Tip for GeoCities users:
You should NOT enter any directory information as you are automatically logged into your
home directory. Only the file name is needed, e.g. capture.jpg. |
... |
History |
If this option is checked DynamIP
will generate links to the last 10 capture files. This usually looks
as follows: History: 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 current
See additional details regarding this setting at Setup|WEBcam
under Capture Counter. |
| Immediate Retry on Failure |
If this option is checked DynamIP
will immediately retry the failing operation. Otherwise DynamIP
will wait for a while before retrying (this waiting period depends on various DynamIP
settings, e.g. the Connection Verification Interval
in the Tab DUN/RAS). |
| #Retries |
Specifies the number of attemps DynamIP
makes to upload the file if it doesn't work out the first time. |
| Delete Remote File before Put |
This switch indicates whether you want DynamIP
to delete the remote file before it uploads the new file. If the box is not checked, DynamIP
attempts to overwrite your existing file which should preserve the file permission
settings. Note, however, that some FTP servers do not allow overwrites. If you get the
impression that your uploaded file never changes then you must probably check this option
so that DynamIP deletes the old remote file before it attempts
to upload the new one. |
| Binary
Transfer |
This switch indicates whether you want DynamIP
to upload the remote file as a binary file (as opposed to a text/ASCII file). Check this
option for images and similar files, but not for HTML files. |
| WEBchat |
Check this option if you want DynamIP
to update the WEBchat tag when going ONline. If this option is unchecked DynamIP
will not update the WEBchat tag. Please note that you must also check the Active box of
the tab WEBchat if you want to use WEBchat, i.e. checking this option without activating
WEBchat is not sufficient for WEBchat to work properly. |
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