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- W i n N E T M a i l (TM) (setup.008)
-
- This screen is where you enter information related to
- your system and system address, and also about the
- remote server to which you will be connecting.
-
- A n O v e r v i e w o f
- I n t e r n e t A d d r e s s i n g
-
- Every system that is connected by the Internet/Usenet
- networks has a machine/system name and at least one
- user. Each system also has what is called a domain
- name, which describes the sub-network of systems to
- which the system belongs. Your Internet e-mail
- address is made up out of the above components, e.g.:
-
- user@machine.domain
-
- The 'user' part of your address refers to you
- personally. It is often the users first or last
- name, or a nickname. Some examples of 'user' names
- are: 'smith', 'roscoe', 'jim' and 'smarty'.
-
- The 'machine' part of your address refers to the
- computer system on which you are a user. 'machine'
- names are sometimes called 'system names', or 'uucp
- login names'. Sometimes the 'machine' name is the name
- of a business enterprise, the name of a geographic
- location or other place, or the name of the computer
- itself. Some examples of machine names are:
- 'lightspeed', 'igor', 'eniac', 'paris_pc'.
-
- The 'domain' part of the address is usually divided
- into 2 or more parts, the formal subnetwork name and
- a general descriptor of the type of network that it
- is. For example, WinNET Communications domain is
- 'win.net'. 'win' is the sub-network name, and 'net'
- is the type of network. Other network types are:
-
- 'com' -- (company)
- 'edu' -- (educational institution/University)
- 'gov' -- (government entity)
- 'mil' -- (military network)
- 'org' -- (general organization)
-
- There are also a variety of networks types specific to
- countries, such as 'uk' for the United Kingdom
- Internet Network.
-
- I n s t r u c t i o n s f o r
- t h i s S c r e e n
-
- Please fill in the fields on this screen as follows...
-
- Full Name:
-
- In this field, please give your full name. The
- contents of this field will be placed in the header of
- each mail message you write to indicate the real name
- of the person sending the mail. Example:
-
- 'Woodrow Wilson'
-
- User Id:
-
- In this field, put the 'user' name. This name is
- your particular user name on your specific system,
- which is generally not known to your uucp provider's
- system. (So you can pretty much make up anything you
- wish). However, it is part of your e-mail address, so
- select something appropriate. Example:
-
- r_smith
-
-
- Local Machine Name:
-
- In this field, enter the machine/system name that you
- have agreed to with your provider. The machine name
- may also be referred to as your 'system name' or 'uucp
- login name'.
-
- In some cases, (when logging into a system via a
- terminal server), there may be a 2 step log-in process
- that involves more than one machine/system name. Also,
- some versions of UUCP require one system name for
- logging in at the system prompt and a second
- machine/system for responding to the remotes system's
- version of uucico when it starts up -- the remote
- version of uucico emits a Shere=host prompt, and
- WinNET's version of uucico must respond with its
- machine/system name; the remote will then look up this
- system name in its Systems and Permissions files to
- make sure that it is a valid system.
-
- For either of these later cases, MAKE SURE to put the
- machine/system name that is required for the remote
- version of uucico to recognize your system in its
- Permissions and Systems files. You can subsequently
- configure your chat.rc file to handle the regular login
- sequence properly, adding the required additional login
- names at the appropriate places.
-
- Domain Name:
-
- In this field, enter the domain name of your
- Internet provider. This should be both the
- sub-network name and the network-type indicator,
- separated by a '.' character. For example:
-
- 'win.net'
-
- Note: If your provider does not assign system names,
- put only the network-type identifier in this field,
- i.e, 'com', 'net', 'gov', 'edu', 'org' or 'mil', etc..
-
- Password:
-
- In this field, enter the password which your Internet
- provider has told you will be needed to gain access to
- your account when you log in to the provider's server.
- In some cases, there may by a 2 step log in process that
- involves more than one password. If this is the case
- with your provider, give the password which is the
- unique password for your specific account (rather than a
- generic password for gaining access to the server
- initially). You can then script the login process
- properly in chat.rc.
-
-
- Remote Machine Name:
-
- In this field, enter the 'machine' or 'system' name
- of the server to which you will be connecting. This
- should be the uucp 'machine' name provided to you by
- your Internet provider, and should be the host name
- emitted when the remote system's uucico program begins:
-
- Shere=hostname
-
- Example:
-
- 'server_pc'
-
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