Creating a Phonebook Entry
Now you need to create one or more phonebook entries to link you to specific network resources. To make a new phonebook entry, follow these steps:
Open My Computer, then open the Dial-Up Networking folder, or click the Start button, then choose Programs, Accessories, Dial-Up Networking. If you’ve never previously had a DUN or RAS phonebook on this computer, a dialog box will appear where you need to click OK to add the first entry.
If you have an existing phonebook, you’ll see the Dial-Up Networking dialog box shown in Figure 3.13. Click the New button to create a new phonebook entry.
On the first screen of the New Phonebook Entry Wizard (Figure 3.14), give the phonebook entry a name, then click the Next button. (If you’d prefer not to use the wizard for this and future entries, check “I know all about phonebook entries and would rather edit the properties directly.” See Figure 3.18 for the phonebook entry properties dialog box.
On the Server dialog box (Figure 3.15), you have three options to consider. If you plan to use this phonebook entry to reach the Internet, check “I am calling the Internet.” If the server you will connect to does not support encrypted passwords, check “Send my plain text password if that’s the only way to connect.” If you must enter a user name and password to log on to the server or if you need to supply an IP address for your computer or for a DNS or WINS server, check “The non-Windows NT server I am calling expects me to type login information after connecting, or to know TCP/IP addresses before dialing.”
When you have made your choices on the Server screen, click the Next button.
On the Phone Number dialog box (Figure 3.16), check the “Use Telephony dialing properties” box if you plan to travel with this computer; that way, the phone number you enter will work with different dialing locations, as described earlier in the chapter. Enter the “Country code,” “Area code,” and “Phone number” in the boxes provided. If you do not check the “Use Telephony dialing properties” box, you will see just a “Phone number” box where you should enter the number.
If there are alternate numbers for this server, click the Alternates button and enter the additional numbers, which will be tried if Windows can’t connect to the first number. When you have finished entering primary and alternate phone numbers, click the Next button on the wizard to continue.
On the Serial Line Protocol screen, choose either Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP), the default selection, or Serial Line Internet Protocol (SLIP), whichever the server supports. Click the Next button to continue.
If you indicated in Step 3 that you need to log on, you will see the Login Script screen (Figure 3.17). Choose None if you do not need to do a text log-on for this server. Choose “Use a terminal window” if you want to enter the user ID and password manually each time. Choose “Automate with this script” if you want to use a log-on script to automate the process.
If you choose “Automate with this script,” you also need to either select a script from the list of those that have been created previously on your computer or click the “Edit script” button to create a new script. Scripts can use either the Windows NT RAS scripting language, which is described in the Winnt\System32\Ras\Switch.Inf document (this document appears when you first click the “Edit script” button) or the Windows 95 dial-up scripting language, which is covered in “Scripting the Log-On Process” earlier in this chapter.
When you have decided how to log on, click the Next button to continue.
If you indicated in Step 3 that you know the specific IP addresses before connecting, you’ll enter those addresses on the final screens of the wizard. On each screen, enter the address that the remote network’s administrator provides. Otherwise, if the server you dial in to provides the address, leave the address as 0.0.0.0. Click the Next button when you’re done with each screen.
Click the Finish button to save the settings for this phonebook entry, and display the Dial-Up Networking dialog box.
The wizard returns you to the Dial-Up Networking dialog box (Figure 3.13), where you can now click the Dial button to test your new phonebook entry. Enter your user name, password, and, if you are connecting to a Windows NT server, domain name in the dialog boxes provided, then click OK to dial the server.
In the Dial-Up Networking dialog box, you not only can dial the phonebook entry you’ve just made, but you also can create new entries, edit existing entries, and change the dialing location. To change dialing location, click the Location button.
To create a new phonebook entry, click the New button. The New Phonebook Entry Wizard will start; or if you checked “I know all about phonebook entries and would rather edit the properties directly” in step 2 above, a tabbed Edit Phonebook Entry dialog box (Figure 3.18) appears. You need to enter information on each of the first four tabs and, if you connect via a public X.25 communications network, also on the X.25 tab.
To edit any of the properties of a phonebook entry, follow these steps:
Open My Computer, then open Dial-Up Networking, or click the Start button, then choose Programs, Accessories, Dial-Up Networking.
In the Dial-Up Networking dialog box (Figure 3.13), select the “Phonebook entry to dial” that you want to edit.
Click the More button, then choose “Edit entry and modem properties” to display the Edit Phonebook Entry dialog box shown in Figure 3.18.
The tabs on the Edit Phonebook Entry dialog box and the options on the More button in the Dial-Up Networking dialog box will lead you to a number of settings and tools to help you manage connections. For example, you can create a phonebook that can be shared with other people or copied from your desktop computer to the one you travel with. We’ll look at that technique in the “Tips and Tricks” section at the end of this chapter.
SHARING NETWORK RESOURCES
By sharing either your folders or your printer(s), your system becomes a network server.
By sharing either your folders or your printer(s), your system becomes a network server (called a peer-to-peer server because it’s a peer of the other systems that will be accessing those resources). The server can be a dedicated server — used only for sharing — or a non-dedicated server, on which you run other applications.
The files needed for sharing are installed on Windows NT by default. You also need to start the Server service. To do so, follow these steps:
Click the Start button, then choose Settings, Control Panel. Open the Services applet in the Control Panel.
In the Service list in the Services dialog box, select the Server service, then click the Start button. After the Server service starts successfully, you will see Started in the Status column.
Click the Close button to quit the Services applet.
Note that in the Startup column you should see the word Automatic. This means that, during future sessions, the Server service will start up automatically.
To enable sharing under Windows 95,
Click the Start button, then click Settings and Control Panel.
In the Control Panel folder, double-click Network.
In the Network dialog box, click File and Print Sharing.
In the File and Print Sharing dialog box, check the boxes to give others access to your files and/or to allow others to print to your printer(s), then click OK.
Click Yes when you’re asked whether you want to restart your computer.
To share a folder, follow these steps:
Right-click on the folder in My Computer or Explorer, then choose Sharing.
In the Sharing dialog box, choose Shared As and enter a Share Name.
If this is a Windows 95 computer and share-level security is in effect, select the Full access type and enter a password if you prefer. If you are set up for user-level security on a Windows 95 computer, you must choose the users or groups you want to grant access to. Click the Add button. In the Add Users dialog box, select users or groups, then click the Full Access button. Click OK to close the Add Users dialog box.
If you are set up for user-level security for Windows NT, the default is to grant access for the maximum number of users (10 on an NT Workstation computer), with full access for everyone, as shown in Figure 3.19. If you want to limit access to certain groups or users, click the Permissions button.
Click OK when you’ve finished setting up the share.
Users at other workstations will now be able to connect to that shared folder by specifying your computer name and the share name (the one you just entered), in this format: \\computername\sharename. For example, if the computer name is MAILMAN and you shared the WGPO0000 folder with the share name WGPO, users will use the path \\MAILMAN\WGPO to connect to the folder.
TIPS AND TRICKS
Windows NT 4.0 offers several useful tools for working with dial-up connections, including the ability to copy phonebook entries to another computer (something Windows 95 can’t do!). Also in this section, as either a Windows 95 or Windows NT user, you will learn how to make a connection when you can’t dial directly.
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