Greetings Chix and Others, I just joined this list, so here's my introduction and first problem. I'm a technical writer by trade, and once I learn more about Linux, I'd like to get involved in the Linux Documentation Project and/or the Open Writers Group. (I have the impression that there are some politics between those two groups, which I'm not sure I want to know about :-) The reasons I want to do this are: 1) it's really cool; 2) it's a service to the world; and 3) it's a service to myself, since all the more-technical documentation I produce for my job is proprietary, and couldn't be used in a portfolio if I were to look for another job. I have installed RedHat 6.2 on my system, and I want to set it up to read email and news, and do web-browsing, so that it will become my primary operating environment (at home, anyway). The programs I anticipate still needing to run MS-Windows for are Quicken and Lotus Notes (for work stuff). I have some previous experience with Unix, but only as a user, not a system administrator, and not much involving X Windows. I have set up my Netscape preferences with, as near as I can tell, the same settings that I use under MS-Windows for mail and news servers. However, when I try to connect to either one, I get a message that the server refused the connection and to try again later. However, if I connect under Win98 immediately afterward, I can connect with no problem. I suspect that this problem is due to some interaction with PPP. Because the servers are in an edu domain, they refuse connections if you are not in the same domain. This means I have to use the campus dial-in in order to access these servers. The PPP connection appears to be working OK (I can do regular web-browsing), but I wonder if my dynamic IP address is not being reported properly. I had trouble setting up my PPP connection using the RedHat Dialup Configuration Tool. I would define an account, but when I opened the tool again later, the account would not show up, even though it existed in the wvdial.conf file. Another problem with that tool was that it would show you the login conversation with the server, but would not let you define a custom login script. I need a custom login script for connecting to the campus dial-in server. So I ended up configuring ppp0 using netcfg, which does let me define a custom "chat" script. But it doesn't offer a debug feature. So I'm not certain that the IP address assigned to me by the dial-in server is being stored in whatever location it needs to be for the mail & news servers to recognize my machine as being on their domain. Any suggestions on how to resolve this situation? Is there a way to get Netscape to show me the real response from the server? Is there a way to see if my machine "knows" its dynamic IP address? Is there a way to debug a "chat" script that's defined using netcfg? Why isn't RH Dialup Configuration Tool showing the accounts that are defined in wvdial.conf? Is there a way to define a custom script using that tool? TIA, --Janet -- A burro is an ass. A burrow is a hole in the ground. You are expected to know the difference. --United Press International Stylebook _______________________________________________ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
