Get Adam Engst's "Internet Starter Kit"book (includes MacTCP, etc.)
How to access with Open Transport and FreePPP
(as opposed to MacTCP)
(For the most part, Open Transport and TCP/IP should be installed with
later versions of System 7.5.3 or 7.5.5; it may come with a "PPP" product
that will be configurable in a similar manner to FreePPP. FreePPP is
freely available on-line and at various stores around town,
e.g., the Micro Store in the basement of Math Sciences at UC).
TCP/IP goes into System:Control Panels
FreePPP goes into System:Extensions
FreePPP Setup goes anywhere (e.g., Utilities folder)
Open TCP/IP Control Panel;
Enter Command-K (or select "Configurations" under FILE on the menu bar)
Enter something like "Calgary Free-Net SLIRP"
Click "Make Active" to return to TCP/IP entry screen
On the main TCP/IP screen,
"Connect via" should show "FreePPP"
"Configure" should show "Using PPP server"
"Name server address" should show "198.161.243.11"
"IP address" should show "will be supplied by server"
and this should be showing for Subnet Mask and Router as well
"Implicit search path starting ..." is "freenet.calgary.ab.ca"
"additional search domains" can be "freenet.calgary.ab.ca"
Under "Options" on the TCP/IP entry page, check "Make TCP/IP active"
and I usually check "Load only when needed" (this seems to defeat some
weird attempts to connect by non-TCP applications).
Close TCP/IP.
Launch/open FreePPP Setup;
click on the little arrow in the lower left corner to open a
larger display (if not already open).
In the lower window that opens up, click on "Accounts".
In the new window, in the Server Name box enter "Calgary Free-Net"
and in the Phone Number box enter 282-3707.
In the Connect box, select "Using Connection Script" (or manually)
In the Username box, enter your Free-Net login userid.
In the Pasasword box, enter your login password (it will be masked).
Click on "Edit connection script";
fill in the boxes as follows:
(don't enter the quotes")
(Return means put a check in the RETURN box)
(wait-for means check that box under "DO")
(send means select that box under "DO")
send blank Return (may not be necessary step)
wait-for "ogin:"
send (userid) Return (no parentheses)
wait-for "ssword:"
send (password) Return (no parentheses)
wait-for "PPP" <== Note: CAPITAL LETTERS
send "2" Return
wait-for "lirp"
If it makes you nervous to have your actual password and userid
visible, instead enter $USERID$ and $PASSWORD$ (all caps, and
include dollar signs), and then select "Authentication" on the
second Config PPP page and enter your actual userid and password
there. They're masked in the Authentication boxes, and then when
PPP is activated a dialog box will come up and request
that you enter them to confirm what's in the authentication fields.
(Note: works with older PPP, may work with FreePPP)
In the timeout box at the bottom, enter "120"
Click on OK.
Click on Connection;
Set Port Speed (try 19220 if you have a 14.4 modem)
Set Flow Control to CTS&RTS(DTR)
Click OK
Click on General, then click on Modem Setup;
Be sure the Modem Port is selected at th e top.
I usually get by leaving the ModemInit field blank, so try that first,
but some modems are picky. A set of initialization strings can be
found here.
(For example, the Apple Express Modem that is commonly in a PowerBook uses
&F\N3 in the ModemInit box)
And FreePPP may have come with an "autodetect" file (check in the
System:Preferences folder), and if so you can try that setting
(for common modems).
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AND, YOU MUST RESTART YOUR MACHINE AFTER MAKING THESE ENTRIES.
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Then just launch the FreePPP Setup and click on CONNECT to
start. When the login process is complete, launch Netscape, or
whatever (leave FreePPP Setup open).
The complete FreePPP installation comes with a control panel named
FreePPP Menu. This puts an icon for FreePPP Setup on the menu bar,
so you can launch it from there. (Sometimes it requires rebuilding
the desktop file to get this to work -- hold down Command and Option
when rebooting).
In fact, with a properly configured script, you *may* just be able
to click on Netscape (or whatever), which will then automatically use
FreePPP and execute the connect script itself.
(DO NOT try to connect using ZTERM, ClarisWorks, or whatever you may have used
to log into the Free-Net before.)
You should also utilize a handy utility called Internet Config.
You can put into it all the settings for your e-mail and such,
and then when you install any Internet-Config-aware application
it will get many of the settings it needs from there, so you don't
have to configure each one from scratch.
Without Internet Config, you will have to check the Options (or
Settings, or Preferences) for each application (such as Eudora,
Netscape, Fetch, etc.) even though you've entered lots of the
information into TCP/IP and FreePPP. (In fact, even with
Internet Config there will be some things to configure specific
to applications such as Netscape.)