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RE: [ECS] PCAnywhere Scott Reston Wed, 07 Jul 1999 07:52:27 -0500

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to set the IP address for a NIC (network interface card) that's in your computer, right
click on 'network neighbrhood' then properties. under the configuration 
tab (the default), double click on the TCP/IP that is bound to your NIC (rather than
to your dial-up adapter). if you're just connecting in-house, you'll want to 
use non-routable IP addresses to avoid coming into contact with someone using the same
subnet 'in the real world'. you can use 192.168.0.XXX and be 
safe. set up a unique IP on each machine on your network. if you want to refer to machines
by names, rather than by numbers (and you don't have a 
nameserver in your house...), make changes to the file named "hosts" in your windows
directory. there should be something already there so that you can get 
the correct format.

i have the VNC server installed on each machine, automatically starting in the startup
folder. according to the docs for VNC, there should be very little 
performance hit when the server is dormant, so this shouldn't be a problem. 

it's really handy to be able to install software on a remote machine using VNC - copy
the install programs to a directory on that machine, navigate to the 
directory through VNC and install. if VNC  is in the startup, you can even let the machine
reboot without getting locked out. 



scott reston
ih8gates@concentric.net
http://www.indelible-blue.com/meetib/scott/


On Tue, 6 Jul 1999 20:59:28 -0500, J. Kevin Sexton wrote:

>When I get time a need to setup the TCP/IP settings . Could you give me any
>hints on the IP address setting and such.

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