Connecting to the Internet and the Web

If you want to use the Web, your site must be connected to the Internet. If you don't have an Internet connection, the first step is to get connected.

Once you're connected, you may still encounter problems in reaching Web sites outside of your site. Such problems most commonly arise from the use of firewalls. If your site is connected to the Internet through a firewall but you can't reach any external machines from your internal network, you need to do two things:

  1. Have your system administrator set up proxy servers or packet filtering on the firewall.
  2. If your system administrator has chosen the proxy server approach, configure Netscape Navigator to get it to work properly with the selected proxy server software.