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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.:

[email protected]

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'