Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 06:47:32 -0000 (GMT) From: Duncan Barclay <dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk> To: Tim Gerchmez <fewtch@serv.net> Cc: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk>, FreeBSD-Newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> Subject: Re: I did it!! Success! Yes!! Message-ID: <XFMail.980615064732.dmlb@computer.my.domain> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980614152413.007ea100@mx.serv.net>
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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
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