CONNNECTING TO THE INTERNET WITH WINDOWS 95
V1.1 31/8/95

If you've installed Windows 95 on your machine and you're using the dialup 
SLIP facility, then get rid of that tired old Trumpet Winsock setup  
you've been battling with, and install Win95's inbuilt SLIP support.
  
With the script available here, connection to the Internet via a 32-bit 
Winsock can be completely automated, including setting of your machine's 
IP address for the session.

To install SLIP support on a your computer, use the Add/Remove Programs 
option in Control Panel, select the Windows Setup tab, click the Have 
Disk button, and install from the ADMIN\APPTOOLS\DSCRIPT directory.

Now double-click "My Computer" (or whatever you've named it) on the 
desktop, open the "Dial-Up Networking" folder, and double-click "Make 
New Connection".

Follow the instructions and enter the various details (phone number, 
etc) for your provider. When all is done you'll have another 
icon in the Dial-Up Networking folder, called 
"<insert-your-providers-sitename>".

Right-click on this icon and choose "properties".

If all has gone well, the correct phone number for your service provider 
will be there (disable the country code option unless you're calling 
from overseas!).

The box marked "connect using" should indicate the modem you set up when 
you installed Win95.

Click "configure" here and select the "options" tab; be sure that the 
only box checked is "Display modem status".

Now click on the "Server type" button, and set the "Type of dial-up 
server" to "SLIP: UNIX Connection".

If this option isn't available, you didn't install SLIP support during 
setup; run setup again to do so. If it's installed, you'll see "SLIP And 
Scripting For Dial-Up Networking" listed in the Add/Remove Programs list 
in Control Panel.

Make sure that TCP/IP is the protocol checked here, and then click the 
"TCP/IP Settings" button.

Check the radio button for "Server assigned IP address" and "Specify 
Name Server Addresses"; under the latter, enter the name server supplied 
by your access site in the "Primary DNS" area. 

Check the two boxes for IP Header compression and using the default gateway.

You're nearly there!

Now grab the sample script file from here and stick it  wherever you want 
on your system, making sure it retains the file extension ".SCP".

Run the Scripter tool (it's in "Program Files/Accessories") and you'll 
see your connection listed there.

Click on it, and use the browse button to locate the script that you've 
downloaded.

Select it, hit the "Apply" button, and you're done. 

Now to connect, just double-click the "<sitename>" icon in the Dial-Up 
Networking folder (in "My Computer") and your modem will dial <sitename>, 
login with the username and password you provide now (the "remember 
password" option only works if your system is set up for multi-user 
operation), and will automatically set up your IP address and 
log you in to the SLIP server.

That's it, you're in!

You can safely get rid of Trumpet Winsock if you were using it (Win95's 
32-bit Winsock is faster, anyway).

If you have any problems along the way, another way to get your SLIP 
connection details set up is to use the Internet Setup Wizard 
(in Programs>Accessories>Internet Tools, off the Start Button menu, but only 
if you bought and installed the Plus! pack CD) . 

Feel free to contact me at anthony@xymox.apana.org.au if you have any 
further questions!