From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Jun 15 13:19:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA18493 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 13:19:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (post-20.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA18428 for ; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 13:18:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk) Received: from (ragnet.demon.co.uk) [158.152.46.40] by post.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 1.82 #2) id 0ylfhr-0004cY-00; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 20:18:20 +0000 Received: from dmlb by ragnet.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 1.82 #1) id 0ylT3E-0001ar-00; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 06:47:32 +0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980614152413.007ea100@mx.serv.net> Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 06:47:32 -0000 (GMT) From: Duncan Barclay To: Tim Gerchmez Subject: Re: I did it!! Success! Yes!! Cc: Nik Clayton , FreeBSD-Newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, Sue Blake Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 14-Jun-98 Tim Gerchmez wrote: > > THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!! I thought I knew Win95 like the back of my hand.. I > guess it was more like the back of my thumb instead. > > It worked... I added the name to "hosts.sam" in c:\windows (and copied the > file to a file just called "hosts" for good measure, just in case) and now > I can use the name rather than the IP address. > > You've saved the day, Sue!! Now, how to get that darned MSIE4 to recognize > that that one particular IP address doesn't need to be dialed via modem > automatically when I try to connect to it (I have TCP/IP bound to both the > dialup adapter and my Ethernet card in Win95)... and everything would be > PERFECT. I may be expecting too much though... :-) I guess it's no big > deal to hit "cancel" when that dialup window pops up... I'll be using the > modem more often than I will be connecting to the BSD box anyway. > Why not move the modem to the FreeBSD box and use that your your router to the external world. Read the manual page for ppp and the ppp tutorial at http://www.freebsd./org/tutorials. Setting this up is very easy. Essentially all you do is run ppp with -demand -alias and it will work. [snipped] --- ________________________________________________________________________ Duncan Barclay | God smiles upon the little children, dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk | the alcoholics, and the permanently stoned. ________________________________________________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message