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Date:	Tue, 6 Feb 2001 08:41:39 PST
From:	"Virginia R. Hetrick" <drjuice@gte.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-general@scoug.com
To:	scoug-general@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-General: [Editorial] Manage And Lead (fwd)

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Hi, T=E2m -

I noticed in your email (from really late last night ;-) that you apparen=
tly
want to connect to the Internet in various public locations. That's a ve=
ry
straightforward task.

You'll need to find out the following information:

1. Does the location use DHCP (this is the protocol/software/server that
automatically assigns IP addresses dynamically to the systems in its doma=
in
and most places that allow public connections use it)? If it uses DHCP, =
you
will not need an IP address for the system you're connecting.

2. If the location doesn't use DHCP, you'll need the domain administrato=
r
(which can be ALL different kinds of people, depending on the way the sit=
e is
administratively organized) to assign you an IP address. This is a pain.

3. I assume that you might want to do something like email once you're
connected, so you'll need the names of your POP3 server and your SMTP ser=
ver.
Warning: some public connection sites have firewalls that may not allow =
you
to use "your own" SMTP server. But, I've found that just putting in the =
name
of "their" SMTP server works just okay, not graciously sometimes, but oka=
y
most of the time. So, sometimes you'll need the name of their SMTP serve=
r.

Once you have these chunks of information, you should be able to go into =
MPTS
and TCPIP and configure your system properly.

HTH.

vh
--
\ / Virginia R. Hetrick, here in sunny California
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