Setting Up Windows NT 4 Dial-Up Networking For The World Last Modified April 15, 2008 Note: If you already have a working PPP connection with another Internet Service Provider on this machine with Windows NT, you can skip right to step 4. Before configuring the network settings, you must verify whether the modem is installed properly or not. If you ensure your modem is already installed properly you can skip this part and go to the installation of RAS, although it is probably worth your while to make sure it is installed now to avoid headaches later on. 1.1 Verifying Modem Installation 1. Double-click on the My Computer icon. 2. Double-click on the Control Panel icon in My Computer. 3. Double-click on the Modems icon in the Control Panel. If you can see your modem shown in the dialog box (this just means the white box which lists information), it means your modem is already installed. You can skip the 'Installing your modem' section and continue onto the 'RAS' Installation (Part 2). If you cannot see your modem inside this box, you need to click the Add button under the white box to install your modem. 1.2 Installing Modem After you click the Add button, you will see a computer connected to a modem which is then connected to some power lines on the left. Be sure the box which says, 'Don't detect my modem, I will select it from the list.' is not checked. At this point you should double check that your modem is all set and ready to be detected. If you modem is inside your computer (called an internal modem), then you are all set and don't have to test anything. If you modem is outside your computer (called an external modem), then make sure it is plugged on and that it is turned on and getting power. The easy way to determine this with most modems is that at least one light (usually red) on the modem will be lit. If you don't see any lit lights, check all the connections and make sure the power plug is plugged into the modem. Now click the Next button. This will cause Windows to try and find your modem. After clicking the Next button, Windows should find your modem automatically. It may take a couple of minutes, depending on your system setup. If Windows NT cannot detect your modem, a box will appear on your screen with the, now familiar, computer attached to modem and phone lines graphic. If it didn't find your modem it will say, "Windows NT did not find any new modems attached to your computer. To select your modem from a list, click Next. Click the Next button. You will be presented with a list of modem manufacturers on the left of the box, and a list of modem models on the right. On the off chance that your modem is not listed, then you will have to enquire your modem vendor before you can continue. If you have a disk that came with the modem, place it into your floppy drive and click on the 'Have Disk' button. This will then ask where to search for the files for your modem. If your floppy drive is A:, then you would use the default, A:\. If you don't have a disk and you don't know what type of modem you have, you can choose Standard Modem Types from the Manufacturer list and then Standard XXXX Bps Modem, depending on the speed of your modem. This will generally be 14400 or 28800. Now, you should see your modem in the dialog box of Modem Properties. It means that your modem has already been installed properly. The next step is to install the Remote Access Services (RAS). 2. Remote Access Service (RAS) Installation In order to establish the connection to The World you should also install Remote Access Service (RAS) under Windows NT. What is RAS? RAS stands for Remote Access Services. Customers in remote sites can use the network (the Internet in this case) as if their computers were directly connected to the network. After installing RAS, you can use the RAS phone book to maintain the telephone numbers of remote networks, and to make a connection or disconnect from these remote networks. This is the easiest way to make your connection to The World. 2.1 Verifying RAS installation To verify whether the RAS is installed or not: 1. Double-click on the My Computer icon. 2. Double-click on the Control Panel icon. 3. Double-click on the Network icon. 4. Select the Services tab at the top of the dialog box. You will see a list of networking services that are currently installed on your system. Locate an item called Remote Access Services. If you can find RAS in the list, you can go to 'Configuring Remote Access Services' later in this document. If you cannot find Remote Access Services in the list, you need to install RAS first. Click Add button and go to 2.2 2.2 Installing Remote Access Services (RAS) After you click the Add button in the Scroll through the list of available services until you find one labeled 'Remote Access Service'. Click on it to highlight it. Click the OK button and Windows will try to install the Remote Access Services. If Remote Access Service (RAS) has never been installed onto your system, Windows NT will prompt you to provide the installation CD-ROM. You need to put the CD-ROM into the drive and type the path of the windows NT directory locating at the CD-ROM. Generally this is the "i386" directory on your CD-ROM. So, if your CD-ROM is in the E: drive, you would put in "e:\i386\". When you put in the CD, the Windows NT Setup screen may appear. You can cancel out of that by clicking on the X in the top right hand corner of the screen. Windows NT will then copy files required onto your system. NT may ask you what device you are going to use to dial, choose the modem that you plan on using to connect to World. NT will then ask what protocol to use for RAS, choose only TCP/IP. Now that you have installed RAS, we need to configure it properly. 3. Configuring Remote Access Services (RAS) After installing the RAS, you need to configure it to use the modem connected to your system. 1. Double-click on the My Computer icon. 2. Double-click on the Control Panel icon. 3. Double-click on the Network icon. 4. Highlight the entry Remote Access Service on the Services tab. 5. Click the Properties button. You may be asked to Select the modem you want to use (most people only have one modem in their system). If so, do this and then click OK button. If not, you will be at the Remote Access Setup screen. Your modem should be listed in the white box. Click the Configure button and you should see the 'Configure Port Usage' window appear. By default, the Port Usage section will have 'Receive Calls Only' selected. Change this to the 'Dial Out Only' option, or to 'Dial Out and Receive Calls' if you intend to also configure your system to receive calls. Click the 'OK' button after you choose the Port Usage. After clicking the OK button in the last window, click the Network button on the right side of the 'Remote Access Setup' window. You will see a 'Network Configuration' windows. Make sure that TCP/IP is only protocol with a check mark. If other protocol's are listed and are checked, you can "uncheck" them by clicking on the check box next to the protocol. Click the OK button. Then click the 'Continue' button in the Remote Access Setup. If Windows NT prompts you to reboot the system, Click 'Yes' to re-start your system. That completes the installation of RAS. You can now go on to the next step, Creating a Dial-Up Networking Connection. 4. Creating a Dial-Up Networking Connection Now you are ready to set up a connection to The World from your Windows NT system. Before connecting to The World, you need to create at least one Dial-Up Networking connection item. Follow the procedures below: 1. Double-click on the My Computer icon. 2. Double-click on the Dial-Up Networking icon. The first time you create a Dial-Up Networking Connection, Windows NT will beep and show you a dialog box about missing phone book entry. This is OK, we are going to create one now. Click on the OK button. If you have setup Dial-Up Networking before, perhaps with an alternate Internet Service Provider, the wizard will not startup automatically. You will have to click on "New" to create a new one for World. The 'New Phonebook Entry' wizard will start and ask you to enter a name for the new phonebook entry. You can put anything you want in here, but 'The World' is always a good idea. After you enter the name for the new phonebook entry, click on the 'Next' button. A window will then pop up and will ask you for information about the server (The World) which you are calling. You should check "I am calling the Internet" as well as "Send my plain text password if that's the only way to connect". Make sure there is *not* a check mark next to the option that reads, 'The non-Windows NT server I am calling expects me to type login information after connection, or to know TCP/IP addresses before dialing.' This is the last option. The next window will ask for the phone number you are going to use to dial The World. To get the latest phone numbers for our modems, call us voice at 617-783-9753. Uncheck the box that says 'Use Telephony dialing properties'. Click the 'Next' button. Congratulations! You are now ready to test your setup and log on to The World. 5. Logging On Procedure 1. Double-click on the My Computer icon. 2. Double-click on the Dial-Up Networking icon. If The World is your only Phonebook entry, you can click dial now, or if you have other accounts and other dial-up entries, choose your World phonebook entry (the one you entered before while making the dial-up connection) and click Dial. A window will appear asking for you User Name, Password and Domain. It is important that you fill in your World login_name@theworld.com and World password in the appropriate boxes. ("theworld.com" must be lowercase here.) Do not put anything in the Domain field as that will break your connection to World. Click OK. If your modem is installed correctly, and your phone line is connected to your modem, you will see a 'Connecting to The World' windows after you click OK and this will show you the status of your dialing in. After a short while window will pop up saying: Verifying username and password. After a couple of seconds, you will see a 'Connection Complete' window. You may want to check the box to "Not Display" this message again so you do not have to read it each time you connect to World. At this point click the OK button and you are ready to use the Internet! From here you can open up any Internet applications that will run on a standard PPP connection (Netscape, Eudora, Internet Explorer, etc.) To hang up, right click on the bottom right hand corner of the screen (in the taskbar) on the shaded area with a modem. Choose Hangup and the connection to World will end. 6. Getting Windows NT To Automatically Dial World Customers often want NT to connect to World automatically when an Internet application is run. For example, if you load up Netscape it would be nice to have NT dial World and connect Automatically. You can turn this on by doing the following: Go into My Computer and double-click on Dial-Up Networking. Make sure that World is selected as the Phonebook Entry and click on More. Choose User Preferences from the list of options under more. Under the Dialing tab, make sure that the location you have set for "Your Location" is checked. There will probably be just one box to check there. Click OK to save those settings. Windows NT will now dial World whenever a socket is needed. 7. To Disable Call Waiting Go into My Computer and double-click on Control Panels. Open the Modem control panel. Select "Dialing Properties". Put a check next to "To disable call waiting". Just to the right of that there is a box with a pull down menu. Click on the pull down menu and select "*70" (Star Seven Zero Comma with no quotes) from the list. Click OK. Call waiting should now be disabled for the duration of the connection.