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- From: sscoggin@enet.net (Steve Scoggins)
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- Subject: Windows NT Internet FAQ, Part 1/2
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- Summary: This posting contains a list of Frequently Asked
- Questions and Answers about how to setup Windows NT
- for Internet acccess and various Internet resources
- specific to Windows NT. It should be read by anyone
- who is using the built-in Windows NT RAS for slip
- or ppp connections to an Internet provider.
- Keywords: TCP/IP, WINDOWS NT, SLIP, PPP, RAS
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- Last-modified: 1994/12/30
- Version: 1.1
-
- ==============================================================================
- SECTION 1: Introduction and Table of Contents
- ==============================================================================
-
- Document: Windows NT Internet FAQ
- Revision: December, 30 1994
-
- Authors: Steve Scoggins
- email: sscoggin@enet.net
-
- Tom Baltrushaytis
- email: tbaltru@orion.it.luc.edu
-
- Copyright: Copyright (C), 1994 Steve Scoggins & Tom Baltrushaytis
- Permission to copy all or part of this work is granted,
- provided that the copies are not made or distributed
- for resale (except nominal copying fee may be charged),
- and provided that the NO WARRANTY, author-contact, and
- copyright notice are retained verbatim & are displayed
- conspicuously. The incorporation of this FAQ in a
- published book and/or a CDROM archive requires written
- authorization. If anyone needs other permissions that
- aren't covered by the above, please contact the authors.
-
- NO WARRANTY: THIS WORK IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" BASIS. THE AUTHOR
- PROVIDES NO WARRANTY WHATSOEVER, EITHER EXPRESS OR
- IMPLIED, REGARDING THE WORK, INCLUDING WARRANTIES WITH
- RESPECT TO ITS MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY
- PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
-
- Availability: This is available:
- via anonymous ftp from: rtfm.mit.edu
- in the file: windows-nt/internet-faq/part1
- and via WWW from: http://www.luc.edu/~tbaltru/faq/
-
- See also:
-
- The release of Windows NT V3.5 with slip and ppp support has resulted
- in the following questions being asked frequently in the
- comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc and in comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup news groups.
- This document is intended to be a starting point for a new users guide to
- internet connectivity and resources using NT or NTAS slip/ppp for dialup
- access.
-
- We welcome your comments on this FAQ. We also encourage you to send us
- any additional information you would like to see added to this document.
- Send your comments to the authors via the email address listed above.
- If you include attach files use MIME or UUENCODE for the attachments.
- MIME is preferred for attachments.
-
- Third party applications - Your personal experiences with some of the
- commercial add-ons for Internet related products (NFS, Mosaic clients,
- SMTP gateways, etc.) recommendations and installation how-to for
- the multiple COM port cards, and the high speed UART cards.
-
- ==============================================================================
- SUBSECTION 1A: Table of Contents
- ==============================================================================
-
- SECTION 1: Introduction and Table of Contents
- SUBSECTION 1A: Table of Contents
-
- SECTION 2: General Information
- Q2-1: Internet Mailing lists for Windows NT
- Q2-2: Which Internet books are recommended for a Internet beginner?
- Q2-3: Can I have Linux and NT installed on the same pc?
- Q2-4: Where can I find the GNU binaries for NT?
- Q2-5: Where is the port of GNU gcc to NT? Is it version 2.6.+ ?
-
- SECTION 3: Connectivity Hardware
- Q3-1: Where can I locate the latest Microsoft Windows NT 3.5
- hardware compatibility list?
- Q3-2: I'm having trouble installing a SMC 8016 combo network card
- Q3-3: What is the recommended modem.inf entry for USR 28.8 modems?
-
- SECTION 4: Transport Services
- Q4-1: Where can I find out more about tcp/IP, slip, ppp, etc.?
- Q4-2: Where do I find SLIP/PPP for NT? How do I install SLIP/PPP
- for NT?
- Q4-3: Help: My RAS PPP/SLIP connection is not working?
- Q4-4: Where can I find a UUCP implementation for NT?
-
- SUBSECTION 4A: Server
- Q4A-1: Does 3.5's RAS support dynamic ip addressing?
- Q4A-2: If a remote user dials into a NT 3.5 PPP server, will this
- person be able to:
- A.) Use File Manager or Net Use commands to access
- NetBIOS-based shared drives?
- B.) Use a POP mail client to connect to a POP server?
- Q4A-3: Where can I get DNS for NT?
-
- SUBSECTION 4B: Client
- Q4B-1: Where do I configure the RAS TCP/IP settings for PPP connections?
- Q4B-2: Where do I configure the TCP/IP settings for SLIP connections?
- Q4B-3: Example login scripts for various Internet providers
- Q4B-4: How do I automate my slip/ppp login using the switch.inf
- script language?
- Q4B-5: How do I avoid having to click on the DONE button to complete the
- slip/ppp connect when using rasphone?
- Q4B-6: How do I bypass my slip/ppp service providers long banner text
- in the script language?
- Q4B-7: Does anyone know how to put in a delay in switch.inf scripts?
- Q4B-8: How do I get dynamic IP working for slip or ppp?
- Q4B-9: Will the NT slip work with TIA?
- Q4B-10: If I use WFWG V3.11 RAS to connect to a NTAS V3.5
- server can I use telnet and FTP?
- Q4B-11: I am using Windows V3.1 or WFWG V3.11. Can I use Peter Tattam's
- Trumpet winsock software to connect to the NT V3.5 RAS using SLIP
- or PPP? What are the required configuration settings for NT and
- Trumpet to make this work correctly?
- Q4B-12: How do I configure the Chameleon NetManage PPP TCP/IP
- to dial-in using PPP to a NT 3.5 RAS PPP server?
- Q4B-13: Where can I find a UUCP communications software package for
- Windows NT?
-
- SUBSECTION 4C: Gateway
- Q4C-1: How do I enable IP routing between a NTAS server with a PPP/SLIP
- connection to the internet and the local IP subnet?
-
- SECTION 5: Network Applications
- Q5-1: What winsock software works with Windows NT or NTAS Version 3.5?
- Q5-2: Where can I find Windows NT WWW or FTP sites with winsock files?
- Q5-3: Where can I find internet application software for the
- Digital Alpha AXP servers?
- Q5-4: Where can I get NFS for NT?
-
- SUBSECTION 5A: Server
- Q5A-1: Where can I find a WWW server for NT?
- Q5A-2: I have heard that it is possible to create HTML pages with
- MS-Word, is there a template, or a set of macros for that purpose.
- Does any of you know of such templates/macros, and where can they
- be found?
- Q5A-3: What TELNET Servers are commerically available for Windows NT on
- Intel?
-
- SUBSECTION 5B: Client
- Q5B-1: Does anyone know if there is a program which allows you to send
- SMTP mail from the command prompt on NT?
- Q5B-2: Where can I find an archie client for NT?
- Q5B-3: Where can I find a rsh for Windows NT to use with a UNIX host?
-
-
-
- ==============================================================================
- SECTION 2: General Information
- ==============================================================================
-
- Q2-1: Internet Mailing lists for Windows NT
-
- ----------
- windows-nt
- ----------
-
- A list for general discussions about all aspects of Windows NT in
- both workstation and server forms.
- To subscribe send a mail message to mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk with contents
-
- join windows-nt your_first_name your_last_name
-
- to leave use contents
-
- leave windows-nt
-
- List messages should be sent to windows-nt@mailbase.ac.uk
-
- The administrator for the list is A.Hamilton@ed.ac.uk to whom
- any queries or problems should be sent.
-
-
- --------------
- ms-back-office
- --------------
-
- Microsoft's Back Office comprises SQL Server, SNA Server, Systems
- Management Server and Exchange (which is Microsoft's future X400-based
- mail product). All these require Windows NT Server as their
- host system. Joining instructions and administrator as for the windows-nt list.
- Note: this is a new list as of 15/11/94 so its a bit quiet yet :-)
-
-
- --------
- lanman-l
- --------
-
- This list is for discussions of Lan Manager. The native networking
- of Windows NT is essentially the same as Lan Manager and interworking with
- MS-DOS, OS/2 and Windows for Workgroups all concern Lan Manager.
-
- To subscribe, send a mail message to listserv@list.nih.gov with contents
-
- subscribe lanman-l your_first_name your_last_name
-
- To leave use contents
-
- unsubscribe lanman-l
-
- List messages are sent to LANMAN-L@nihlist.earn or to LANMAN-L@nihlist.bitnet
-
- ==============================================================================
-
- Q2-2: Which Internet books are recommended for a Internet beginner?
-
- Ed Krol, "The Whole Internet User's Guide & Catalog"
-
- ==============================================================================
-
- Q2-3: Can I have Linux and NT installed on the same pc?
-
-
- Thanks to Mark Cooke (ee2015@mail.bristol.ac.uk) for the following
- answer.
-
- You can use LILO with the linux partition active
- in the superblock instead of the MBR. Using LILO
- you can choose between DOS/NT and Linux. Then I
- use NT's boot manager to choose between Dos and NT.
-
- Installed Dos first, then Linux, and then NT.
-
- ==============================================================================
-
- Q2-4: Where can I find the GNU binaries for NT?
-
- ftp://ftp.cc.utexas.edu/microlib/nt/gnu
-
- ==============================================================================
-
- Q2-5: Where is the port of GNU gcc to NT? Is it version 2.6.+ ?
-
- You can ftp gcc-2.6.0 from ftp.cs.yale.edu /pub/gnat
- (This release includes both the C and Ada front ends. There is
- also a .hlp file for gcc in MS-HELP format)
-
- ==============================================================================
- SECTION 3: Connectivity Hardware
- ==============================================================================
-
- Q3-1: Where can I locate the latest Microsoft Windows NT 3.5
- hardware compatibility list?
-
- You can locate the HCL on FTP.MICROSOFT.COM in the following URL path:
-
- ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/winnt/winnt-docs/hcl/hcl35
-
- ==============================================================================
-
- Q3-2: I'm having trouble installing a SMC 8016 combo network card
-
- The SMC Elite16 cards work with NT V3.5 if you use the latest
- driver. You can get the latest driver from their bbs.
- They have a bbs at (714) 707-2481 or from the following ftp site.
- ftp://sjf-lwp.novell.com
-
- The SMC tech support email address is techsupt@ccmail.west.smc.com
-
- ==============================================================================
-
- Q3-3: What is the recommended modem.inf entry for USR 28.8 modems?
-
- Thanks to Christopher Browne (cbrowne@usr.com) at USR for the
- recommended MODEM.INF for various USR modems.
-
- This is the .INF as we have it now. It's been tested on NT 3.1 / 3.5
- andWfW 3.11 with great success. I've been able to use all of our
- modems from the Courier v.34 down to the Sportster 9600 data/fax.
-
- The MAXCONNECTBPS is set at 38400 so that this file works with most
- of the installed base of modems. We only started supporting > 57600
- with the Courier V.32t.
-
- The MAXCARRIERBPS is set but any dce-dce rate that is reported at
- connect isignored since the port is locked. The first release of
- this file was in error since it did not contain the &B1 command
- and this caused considerable pain for a few folks. My apologies!
-
- Using ITU-T as our default allows a USR modem to connect with more
- than USR modems at higher dce rates. This can be changed runtime by
- the user either through the phone number "123-123-1234B0" or by
- changing the INF file. I would prefer to see the phone number used
- so that the modem stays in a more compatible mode by default.
-
-
- ; MDMUSR.INF
- ;
- ; For use with Windows for Workgroups, NT 3.1, NT 3.5
-
- [Responses]
-
- ; General non-connect responses that all USR modems generate...
-
- OK=<cr><lf>OK<cr><lf>
- LOOP=<cr><lf>RING<cr><lf>
- LOOP=<cr><lf>RINGING<cr><lf>
- ERROR=<cr><lf>ERROR<cr><lf>
- ERROR_NO_CARRIER=<cr><lf>NO CARRIER<cr><lf>
- ERROR_VOICE=<cr><lf>VOICE<cr><lf>
- ERROR_NO_DIALTONE=<cr><lf>NO DIAL TONE<cr><lf>
- ERROR_BUSY=<cr><lf>BUSY<cr><lf>
- ERROR_NO_ANSWER=<cr><lf>NO ANSWER<cr><lf>
-
- ; General connect responses that all USR modems generate...
-
- CONNECT=<cr><lf>CONNECT <ignore>/NONE<ignore>
- CONNECT_EC=<cr><lf>CONNECT <ignore>/ARQ<ignore>
-
- ; Since serial port is locked, carrier rate is irrelevant.
- ; The RAS client calcuates link rate after connection is accepted.
-
- [USRobotics General]
-
- ; This selection can be used by almost ALL USRobotics modems!
-
- ; * A MAXCONNECTBPS of 38400 allows this to be used by older modems
- ; such as the HST 14400.
-
- ; * Compression is off by default because of the lower DTE-DCE rate.
-
- ; * ITU-T standards are on by default to ensure compatibility with
- ; non-USR modems.
-
- ; * X4 is set to ensure compatibility with Sportster modems. Advanced
- ; dial features for Courier can be activated by placing X7 in the dial
- ; string. (i.e. phone number field contains "1-708-676-1059X7"
-
- CALLBACKTIME=10
- DEFAULTOFF=compression
- MAXCARRIERBPS=28800
- MAXCONNECTBPS=38400
- <speaker_on>=m1
- <speaker_off>=m0
- <hwflowcontrol_on>=&h1&r2
- <hwflowcontrol_off>=&h0&r1
- <compression_on>=&k3
- <compression_off>=&k0
- <protocol_on>=&m4
- <protocol_off>=&m0
- <autodial_on>=ATdt
- <autodial_off>=ATd
- COMMAND_INIT=AT&f&a3x4e1q0v1s0=0s7=55s2=128<cr>
- COMMAND_INIT=AT&b1&c1&d2b0x4<cr>
- COMMAND_INIT=<hwflowcontrol><compression><protocol><speaker><cr>
-
- COMMAND_DIAL=<autodial><phonenumber><cr>
- COMMAND_LISTEN=ATS0=1<cr>
-
- ; US Robotics modems are defined in original MODEM.INF are
- ; maintained here for installation purposes
-
- [US Robotics Courier Dual]
- ALIAS=USRobotics General
-
- [US Robotics Courier HST]
- ALIAS=USRobotics General
-
- [US Robotics Courier V.32bis]
- ALIAS=USRobotics General
-
- [US Robotics Sportster 2400]
- ALIAS=USRobotics General
-
- [US Robotics Sportster 9600]
- ALIAS=USRobotics General
-
- [US Robotics V.FC/V.34]
- ALIAS=USRobotics General
-
- ==============================================================================
- SECTION 4: Transport Services
- ==============================================================================
-
- Q4-1: Where can I find out more about tcp/IP, slip, ppp, etc.?
-
- TCP/IP Illustrated Volume 1 The Protocols by W. Richard Stevens
- Published by Addison-Wesley
- ISBN 0-201-63346-9
-
- TCP/IP Network Administration by Craig Hunt
- Published by O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
- ISBN 0-937175-82-X
-
- I recommend you check out the following Web HTML document as a
- starting point. "The PC-Internet Connection Update Page"
- http://www.zilker.net/users/internaut/update.html
-
-
- "comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)"
- by Aboba, Bernard D.(1994)
- email address: aboba@netcom.com (Bernard Aboba)
- Aboba, Bernard D.(1994) "comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc Frequently
- Asked Questions (FAQ)" Usenet news.answers, available via
- file://ftp.netcom.com/pub/mailcom/IBMTCP/ibmtcp.zip, 57 pages.
- http://www.zilker.net/users/internaut/update.html
- http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu
- /hypertext/faq/usenet/ibmpc-tcp-ip-faq/part1/faq.html
-
- This FAQ is now fully HTML compatible, and is being automatically
- converted to HTML. This means that if you have a WWW browser, you
- can read the FAQ on-line, and click on links to download individual
- files. This is how I read the FAQ myself, and it is highly
- recommended.
-
-
- The "PPP-FAQ" authored by Ignatios Souvatz (isignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de)
-
- Archive-name: ppp-faq/part1 URL: http://cs.uni-bonn.de/ppp/part1.html
-
- Summary: This document contains information about the Internet
- Point-to-Point Protocol, including a bibliography, a list of
- public domain and commercial software and hardware
- implementations, a section on configuration hints and a list of
- frequently asked questions and answers on them. It should be read
- by anybody interested in connecting to Internet via serial lines,
- and by anybody wanting to post to comp.protocols.ppp
- (before he/she does it!)
-
- "Personal Internet Access Using SLIPP or PPP: How You Use It,
- How it Works" by Frank Hecker
- FTP//ftp.digex.net/pub/access/hecker/internet/slip-ppp.txt
-
- ==============================================================================
-
- Q4-2: Where do I find SLIP/PPP for NT? How do I install SLIP/PPP for NT?
-
-
- A.) Double click on the Main program group
- B.) Double click on Network
- C.) Click on add software
- D.) Choose Remote Access Service
-
- ==============================================================================
-
- Q4-3: Help: My RAS PPP/SLIP connection is not working?
-
- You probably have one of three problems either the slip link is not
- working, or your NT system is not accessing the UNIX service DNS,
- or the IP routing is messed up between your NT system and your slip
- providers UNIX network.
-
- 1.) Can you ping any addresses on the other end of the slip or ppp
- link? Try pinging the UNIX server or the gateway. Drop to DOS and
- use the ping command. Use the numeric IP address.
-
- 2.) Try turning VJ compression off. Sometimes telnet and FTP will
- not work if you have VJ compression on and the system you are
- connected to does not support VJ compression. If you are using
- TIA be sure and set the NT option for VJ compression to off.
- Since, TIA does not support VJ compression.
-
- 3.) Check and confirm that the following are correct:
- Double click on the Main program group icon, then double click on
- the Control Panel icon, then double click on Network icon, select
- the TCP/IP protocol and click on the configure button. Click on
-
- DNS and verify the following is correct:
-
- A.) The Host Name for your PC
- B.) Your Domain Name
- C.) Add the proper DNS IP address or addresses for your slip/ppp
- service.
-
- Click on OK to confirm DNS changes
- Click on OK to close out the TCP configuration dialog.
- Click on OK to close the Network configuration dialog.
-
- If you are not sure please ask slip/ppp service providers system
- admin. to confirm them for you.
-
- 4.) Drop the baud rate to 9600, some UARTs do not work above 9600
- without UART receiver overruns.
-
- 5.) Finally try finding someone else who is using NT slip or ppp
- at your location. Ask the system admin. if anyone else is
- successfully running NT via slip or ppp.
-
- 6.) Can you dial in using slip or ppp from a known working system
- using your username and password?
-
- 7.) Are you using dynamic IP addressing (bootp)?
-
- With slip you will have to manually login using Rasphone and
- then type your IP into the little white box at the lower right
- side of the screen and click on the DONE button. For PPP you
- can automate the login follow the directions under question no.
- 27 below. Also a NT workstation using RAS to dial into a NT
- server will work with dynamic IP if the NT server is configured
- for DHCP.
-
- 8.) Are you using a static IP address?
-
- The first time you dial in using the RAS SLIPP use the manual
- login option, you will get a screen a 0.0.0.0 IP address displayed
- in a white box at the bottom of the screen. Type in your assigned
- SLIP IP address and click on the DONE button. The IP address will
- be written into the rasphone.pbk as the SlipIpAddress=NNN.NNN.NNN.NNN
- entry under the currently active selection in the rasphone.pbk file
- located in the /winnt35/system32/ras directory.
-
-
- 9.) After you dial in and login in shell out to does and see what
- the netstat -rn utility shows.
-
- My netstat -rn returned the following info after my slip link is
- connected. My IP address is 198.60.143.32 and my slip service
- providers gateway is 168.158.8.5
-
- Network Address Netmask Gateway Address Interface Metric
- 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 198.60.143.32 198.60.143.32 1
- 127.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 1
- 198.60.143.32 255.255.255.255 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 1
- 198.60.143.255 255.255.255.255 198.60.143.32 198.60.143.32 1
- 224.0.0.0 224.0.0.0 198.60.143.32 198.60.143.32 1
- 255.255.255.255 255.255.255.255 198.60.143.32 198.60.143.32 1
-
- Route Table
-
- Active Connections
- Proto Local Address Foreign Address State
- TCP 198.60.143.32:1249 168.158.8.5:119 ESTABLISHED
-
- ==============================================================================
-
- Q4-4: Where can I find a UUCP implementation for NT?
-
- You'll find UUCP on ftp.cica.indiana.edu
-
- ==============================================================================
- SUBSECTION 4A: Server
- ==============================================================================
-
- Q4A-1: Does 3.5's RAS support dynamic ip addressing?
-
- Yes NTAS V3.5 allows you to setup up a range of address that
- the remote ras clients can request. This is called dynamic addressing
- or bootp. and it works. The NTAS server is configured as a DHCP server.
- When the remote pc calls in via RAS and is authenticated the NTAS server
- assigns the remote pc an IP from the pool of unused IP addresses.
-
- ==============================================================================
-
- Q4A-2: If a remote user dials into a NT 3.5 PPP server, will this person
- be able to
-
- A.) Use File Manager or Net Use commands to access NetBIOS-based shared
- drives?
-
- Yes, if the remote user is using NT Workstation V3.5 or WFWG V3.1 RAS.
-
- No, if the remote user is using most third party PPP implementations
- such as Chameleon TCP/IP, Spry Air Series 3.0, and Trumpet SLIP/PPP
- Winsock. Most of the third party TCP/IP software packages do not
- support NETBIOS SMB over a remote slip/ppp connection.
-
-
- B.) Use a POP mail client to connect to a POP server?
-
-
- Yes, if the remote user is using NT Workstation V3.5 and RAS PPP
- with the TCP/IP option enabled on both ends of the RAS link.
-
- Eudora email works great with NT V3.5 for SMTP and POP3
- ftp://ftp.qualcomm.com/quest/eudora/windows/1.4/beta
- filename eud143b4.exe
-
- No, if the remote user is using WFWG V3.1 RAS. The WFWG RAS does
- not support PPP and TCP/IP. WFWG V3.1 RAS supports NETBEUI only.
-
- ==============================================================================
-
- Q4A-3: Where can I get DNS for NT?
-
- The Windows NT 3.5 resource kit is supposed to include a DNS software
- package, there is also a third party product called 'DNS Magic' that
- runs as a NT Service, company is 'Software Innovations'
- (winnt#innov.com)
-
- ==============================================================================
- SUBSECTION 4B: Client
- ==============================================================================
-
- Q4B-1: Where do I configure the RAS TCP/IP settings for PPP connections?
-
-
- Thanks to Tom Horsley (Tom.Horsley@mail.csd.harris.com) for his
- suggestion of configuring PPP from the Rasphone.
-
- Instead of configuring PPP starting from the Network entry on the
- control panel, I find that I can configure those details
- from the RAS program's phonebook in the Advanced edit dialog. This
- actually makes perfect sense because the details are likely to be
- different for each phone number.
-
-
- For PPP you can configure the TCP/IP settings as follows:
-
- Double click on the Remote Access icon.
- Highlight the proper entry then click on the EDIT button.
- Click on Advanced if set to Basic.
- Click on Network button (Displays the Network Protocol Settings Dialog)
- Check the PPP option.
- Click on TCP/IP Settings
- If using dynamic IP addresses, check "Use server assigned IP addresses".
- If using a static IP address, check "Require specific IP address" and
- fill in your assigned address.
-
- and enter the primary and backup DNS IP addresses. The
- backup DNS is optional.
-
- If your provider supports compressed ppp, check Use VJ compression.
- and also check the use default gateway on remote network.
-
- ==============================================================================
-
- Q4B-2: Where do I configure the TCP/IP settings for SLIP connections?
-
- Double click on the Main program group icon, then double click on
- the Control Panel icon, then double click on Network icon, select
- the TCP/IP protocol and click on the configure button. Click on
-
- DNS and verify the following is correct:
-
- A.) The Host Name for your PC
- B.) Your Domain Name
- C.) Add the proper DNS IP address or addresses for your slip/ppp
- service.
-
- Click on OK to confirm DNS changes
- Click on OK to close out the TCP configuration dialog.
- Click on OK to close the Network configuration dialog.
-
- NOTE: You will have to setup Rasphone to manually dial the first time you
- make a slip connection. Set the security options to "Use clear text
- Terminal login only", and set the Before and After Scripts to NONE. Then
- select/highlight your entry and click on Dial. You will manually login
- the first time you dialup for the slip connection, after the valid login
- using your username and password type slip<cr> at the remote servers
- command prompt, then type your IP into the little white box at the
- lower right side of the screen and click on the DONE button.
-
- ==============================================================================
-
- Q4B-3: Example login scripts for various Internet providers
-
-
- Example login script for MCS.Net in Chicago
-
- Macro Computer Solutions (MCS-DOM)
- 3217 N. Sheffield
- Chicago, IL 60657
- (312) 248-8649
-
- Domain Name: MCS.COM, MCS.NET
- Administrative Contact, Technical Contact
- Denninger, Karl karl@MCS.NET
-
- substitute your username and password in place of the USERNAME
- and PASSWORD The MCS net server uses the commands login and
- password; if your's uses different words, substitute as needed.
-
-
- Here's the MCS.NET script thanks to Walter S. Arnold
- (sculptor@mcs.net) switch.inf file, pretty basic but it works
- with both PPP and Slip.
-
- [McsNet, SLIP]
-
- COMMAND=<cr>
- ERROR_NO_CARRIER=<match>"NO CARRIER"
- OK=<match>"login:"
-
- COMMAND=sculptor<cr>
- ERROR_NO_CARRIER=<match>"NO CARRIER"
- OK=<match>"Password:"
-
- COMMAND=*************<cr>
- ERROR_NO_CARRIER=<match>"NO CARRIER"
- CONNECT=<match>"Packet mode enabled"
- ;ERROR_DIAGNOSTICS=<cr><lf><Diagnostics>
-
- ; CONNECT response means that the connection completed fine.
- ; ERROR_DIAGNOISTICS response means connection attempt failed
- ; DIAGNOSTIC information will be extracted from the response
- ; and sent to the user.
- ; ERROR_NO_CARRIER means that the remote modem hung up.
- ; ERROR resonses are for generic failures.
-
- ==============================================================================
-
- Q4B-4: How do I automate my slip/ppp login using the switch.inf
- script language?
-
- You will need to edit the switch.inf file in winnt35/system32/ras
- and add an entry for your slip/ppp login script. The section you
- add must have a label followed by your actual script commands.
- Reference the rasphone.hlp help file and the pad.inf file in
- winnt35/system32/ras for additional information.
- The Microsoft NT V3.5 resource kit (when it is released) will
- have additional documentation on the switch.inf file and the
- script language.
-
- The switch.inf script is as follows:
-
- Substitute your USERNAME, PASSWORD, and IP Address
-
- Note, this script will need to be modified to match your slip
- providers login sequence.
- ;
-
- [Evergreen]
- ;
- ; Wait until we get the "username:" prompt
- COMMAND=
- ERROR_NO_CARRIER=<match>"NO CARRIER"
- OK=<match>"ame:"
- ;
- ; Give the username and wait for "password:" prompt
- COMMAND=username<cr>
- ERROR_NO_CARRIER=<match>"NO CARRIER"
- OK=<match>"ord:"
- ;
- ; Give the password and ignore response (we're done)
- COMMAND=password<cr>
- ERROR_NO_CARRIER=<match>"NO CARRIER"
- ; Wait for "Alpine>" send the SLIP command
- OK=<match>"ine>"
- COMMAND=slip<cr>
- ERROR_NO_CARRIER=<match>"NO CARRIER"
- ; Wait for my IP address
- CONNECT=<match>"NNN.NNN.NNN.NNN"
- ERROR_DIAGNOSTICS=<cr><lf><Diagnostics>
- ERROR_DIAGNOSTICS=<lf><cr><lf><Diagnostics>
- ;
- ; CONNECT response means that the connection completed fine.
- ; ERROR_DIAGNOISTICS response means connection attempt failed
- ; - the DIAGNOSTIC information will be extracted from the
- ; response and sent to the user.
- ;
- ; ERROR_NO_CARRIER means that the remote modem hung up.
- ; ERROR responses are for generic failures.
- ;
-
- RAS PHONEBOOK SETTINGS for a SLIP connection to Evergreen
- using Windows NT
-
- Entryname: Evergreen
-
- Modem Settings:
-
- Modem type Microcom Deskporte FAST 28.8K
- UART type: 16550 on Com2
- Enable hardware flow control yes
- Enable modem error control yes
- Enable modem compression yes
- Baud rate 57600
- (use 19200 baud if you do not have a 16550 UART chip for
- your selected COM port)
-
- Network Settings: SLIP
- Force header compression yes
- Use default gateway yes
- Frame Size = 1006
-
- Security Settings:
- Accept any authentication including clear text yes
-
- Terminal or Script
- Before Dialing none
- After Dialing Evergreen
-
- ==============================================================================
-
- Q4B-5: How do I avoid having to click on the DONE button to complete the
- slip/ppp connect when using rasphone?
-
- I wrote two batch files for using rasdial and it worked great!
- The first rasdial batch file is for initiating the connection.
- I then added to icons one for calling the startnet.bat and one
- for calling the stopnet.bat, you can use the open door icon for
- startnet and the close door icon for stopnet. Place these batch
- files in the winnt directory so they are in the Win NT path.
- Type path at the command prompt for path details. You can get
- the command line options for rasdial by typing
-
- rasdial /help
-
- The startnet.bat file contains one line as follows:
-
- rasdial evergreen
-
- and the stopnet.bat file contains one line as follows:
-
- rasdial evergreen /DISCONNECT
-
- ==============================================================================
-
- Q4B-6: How do I bypass my slip/ppp service providers long banner text
- in the script language?
-
- The following is one method submitted by (Chris Pirih)
- pirih@eskimo.com
-
- Chris indicates that a better way to do this is as follows:
-
- COMMAND=mypassword<cr>
- OK=<match>"unity%"
- LOOP=<ignore><cr>
- COMMAND=ppp<cr>
-
- The following is a second method submitted by Jason John Schwarz
- (jschwarz@gandalf.ksmith.com)
-
- For the following example:
-
- OK for those other people who's host sends long strings of stuff
- when they initially login here is a fix, I admit it is not pretty,
- and if somebody has a better one I would like to see it, but this
- works at my site, and it seems to be the only thing that does work.
-
- [cc00du]
- COMMAND=<cr>
- ERROR_NO_CARRIER=<match>"NO CARRIER"
- OK=<match>"login:"
-
- COMMAND=myusername<cr>
- ERROR_NO_CARRIER=<match>"NO CARRIER"
- OK=<match>"Password:"
-
- COMMAND=mypassword<cr>
- OK=<ignore>
-
- COMMAND=
- OK=<ignore>
-
- COMMAND=
- OK=<ignore>
-
- COMMAND=
- OK=<ignore>
-
- COMMAND=
- OK=<ignore>
-
- COMMAND=
- OK=<ignore>
-
- COMMAND=
- OK=<ignore>
-
- COMMAND=
- OK=<ignore>
-
- COMMAND=
- OK=<ignore>
-
- COMMAND=<cr>
- OK=<ignore>
-
- COMMAND=<cr>
- OK=<match>"unity%"
-
- COMMAND=ppp<cr>
- ERROR_NO_CARRIER=<match>"NO CARRIER"
- CONNECT=<match>"Using name=mario"
-
- ==============================================================================
-
- Q4B-7: Does anyone know how to put in a delay in switch.inf scripts?
-
- Our Shiva system requires about 10 seconds to initialize before
- starting PPP.
-
- Try repeating the following script commands five times in your login
- script.
-
- ; The next line will give a delay of 2 secs
-
- COMMAND=
- NoResponse
-
- ==============================================================================
-
- Q4B-8: How do I get dynamic IP working for slip or ppp?
-
- I do not have the dynamic IP working for SLIP connections.
- This is because I do not know how to parse the IP and then transfer
- the dynamically assigned IP to the proper RAS variable. I asked
- Microsoft for additional information on the script language and I
- was told that the NT 3.5 resource kit is supposed to have
- additional documentation on the switch.inf script language but it
- is not released yet (supposed to be released soon).
-
- SLIP with dynamic IP
-
- You will have to interactively logon to a SLIP server by manually
- entering name, password, and "slip" to enter slip mode and recieve
- the dynamic IP address. I copied the address to the address box in
- the RAS terminal IP address box. Don't forget to enter the DNS IP
- addressby configuring TCP/IP ( control panel \ network \ advanced \
- enable DNS & DNS... ). Scripting
- examples are included in other sections of this FAQ.
-
-
- After searching for where rasphone stuck my IP address, and I
- found it in the rasphone.pbk entry.
-
- The first time I ran the SLIP login script via Rasphone book
- entry I got a screen with a DONE button and the 0.0.0.0 IP
-
-
- address was in a white box at the bottom of the screen. I typed
- in my SLIP static IP address and clicked on the DONE button.
- This then was written into the rasphone.pbk as the
- SlipIpAddress=198.60.143.32 entry in the Evergreen section of
- the rasphone.pbk file in /winnt35/system32/ras
-
-
-