In message <19950526.162904.02@acornusr.demon.co.uk> you wrote:
> Since others have got it working fine, I assume that there is something I've
> missed (probably something so trivial that no one has bothered to mention
> it yet:-) Does anyone have any idea what I've done/failed to do? Does anyone
> have suggestions for further diagnostics that I could run to find out the
> problem?
>
Try this.......worked for me witha few little tweaks
from Peter Kiff:
modified by alan hassey
The following set up was arrive at by trial an error (lots of both). It now works well for WWW access via Demon dial-up.
It also seems to allow direct access to FTP sites form the WWW but I haven't used FreeTerm yet.
***Don't forget the new version of !SerialDev***
Arrange applications as follows
FreeNet(directory)
|_!ArcWeb (0.24 with 0.25 upgrade)
|_!FreeNet
|_!FreeTerm
|_!FreeUser
|_!SLIPdial
|_!WebCache
|_!WebHelper
|_!ArcWebImg
|_!ArcWebTCP
|_gif2spr
|_giftrans
Also needed
DRAWFILE module. Arcweb now looks in !System.Toolbox for it
SerialDev (with new Internal and InternalPC drivers) and
ChangeFSI must have been "seen" by the filer.
NB future !ArcWeb's will look in !System.Modules for this....
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Taking the starter-pack demon script as the starting point
Edit line 328 so that
task /name="TCP/IP" <TCPIP2$dir>.!Run becomes
task /name="Startup" <FreeUser$dir>.Startup
task /name="ArcWeb" <ArcWeb$Dir>.!Run
[these have to be in this order or ArcWeb will default to KA9Q]
to close down correctly change line 340 -
task /kill="TCP/IP" which should become
task /kill="Startup"
task /name="Kill" <FreeUser$dir>.Shutdown
task /kill="Kill"
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Next edit !FreeUser.StartUP
Put your own host name into line 22
The remainder should look something like:-
"
slattach +c internalpc 0 19200 *** add +c for cslip support ***
ifconfig sl0 inet 158.152.xxx.xxx 158.152.1.222 up
|ifconfig lo0 inet 127.0.0.1 up
|
| Setup the routing tables
|
route add default 158.152.1.222 1
" where xxx.xxx are your last two IP numbers.
You don't need to edit any of the textfiles in !FreeUser.Files
You need to configure ArcWeb and the Helper apps - I'm not saying this is the only or best configuration, just that it works.
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ArcWeb is an unmodified version 0.24 but corrected by the 0.25 patch. The following options ONLY are set (ie ticked) in the options menu
Interactive URLs
Tool pane on
Netscape extensions
No > in quoted tags
Automatically expire
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ArcWebTCP is version 0.18 (9th May). Configured so that all proxies are selected and set to "wwwcache.hensa.ac.uk". All ports are 8080 except WAIS which is 80. "No proxy" is set to demon.co.uk.
I have Email selected and my Email address included ;-)
Under miscellaneous I have the lower box selected (only)
The DNS Resolver is configured as follows.
Domain 158.152.1.222. (ie demon's IP - it didn't like the name)
Server 1 158.152.1.193
Server 2 158.152.1.65 (both demon's)
Server 3 192.68.175.95 (don't know where this one came from)
Before attempting to start the program make sure none of the FreeNet modules are loaded. (They seem to compete with slipdial and prevent it from connecting). I've taken to rebooting the whole machine before connecting.
The first task is to connect with slipdial in the usual way and wait until the ArcWeb icon appears. (You have to run SlipDial, FreeNet the ArcWeb in that order).
There's nothing to tell you FreeNet is loaded unless you do a *Modules. To check you're connected to demon do a *ping demon (press escape after a few pings)
Open an Arcweb document - click on a remote link and that's it!