DISCLAIMER & COPYRIGHT

The supplied programs are Copyright of their respective owners, All Rights Reserved. It is provided as shareware with the following limitations:

• These programs are shareware and are not to be resold or distributed for sale with other programs which are for sale.
• There is no warranty or claim of fitness or reliability, however, NCKCN has tested the software and has found them to be basic and functional Internet tools.
• The programs are distributed AS IS, and as such neither the authors, nor respective companies, nor NCKCN shall be held liable for any loss of data, down time, loss of revenue or any other direct or indirect damage or claims caused by these programs.
• It will be the user's responsibility to abide by the terms and conditions set forth in the documentation provided with each software package.
• NCKCN does not alter or change the installation software in any way, the programs are distributed AS IS. NCKCN is not responsible in any way to provide support for this software beyond this helpful guide.

• Be sure you have a working modem. NCKCN can not offer hardware support to install, configure, or troubleshoot the thousands of modems or systems on the market. You can verify that your modem is working with terminal programs such as Hyper Terminal for Windows 95. We will step you through the process of setting up a modem in Windows 95. This is the first step we and feel an most important, after all; without a correctly working modem your not going to get anywhere on the Internet!
• You will be modifying a web browser its email application, (to send and receive email), and a news application, (to subscribe to Internet Newsgroups). You will also be installing the components necessary to connect to the Internet. Your Internet connection is basically this: You dial in to connect, establish your connection, then use whichever application you wish to utilize the Internet.
• You will Configure the various programs to connect and use the Internet. This is simply a matter of pointing the software to the correct places or servers. That is essentially how all networks or Internet applications work. They have to know where to look to do their job.

Dial-Up Networking

The component of Windows 95 that actually makes your connection to the Internet. This component uses your fully functional modem to dial into the Internet, establish a connection, and transfer data back and forth from you to the Internet.

Netscape Navigator

Used to graphically interact with computers all over the world. This is known as browsing the World Wide Web. You follow links by simply clicking on a URL (link or hot spot) on a web page to take you to another web page. You can always tell your mouse pointer is on a URL by your pointer becoming the shape of a pointing hand.

Netscape Mail

Netscape Mail is used to send and receive E-mail messages to and from other users as well as attach files along with your email. Netscape Mail is also used to subscribe to newsgroups and articles on the Internet.

Other Programs

Important Note: There are countless programs available to access and use the Internet. You are more than welcome to use and download any other program to do whatever it is you want on the Internet, however, it is impossible for NCKCN to provide technical assistance to all the programs available. Most programs will setup almost the same with the same information. If you need help, you have the entire world at your fingertips for help. Have fun discovering; that's what the Internet is all about!

• Double click on the Netscape icon or Netscape shortcut.

• When the connection dialog box comes up, simply supply your password exactly as given in your Personal Information sheet. Important: Most things are case sensitive on the Internet. If your password is milk7, then type milk7, not Milk7, or MilK7, or MILK7, or MIL K7. It must be that way, without spaces, extra characters, or missing characters. 99.99% of all password errors are because you didn't type in the correct password. Watch out you don't have your Caps-Lock key on! (Only asterisks will be displayed to prevent someone from looking over your shoulder to get your password) Click Connect to dial. For more information on setting Windows 95 to automatically save your password (which it will not do by default), look on-line at the PC Info Center link on the NCKCN Support web page at http://www.nckcn.com/Support/.

The Username, Password and Phone number will be provided to you by NCKCN. Make sure that you enter them into the areas exactly as supplied. The Connection will dial in and verify you as an NCKCN member.

• Once you connect, Netscape will download a default or previous home page to your browser.

You may want to set your new home page to the NCKCN site.

• Type http://www.nckcn.com in the Go to: area. This is called the URL or web address. After you finish typing NCKCN's address simply press the Return or Enter key to load up the NCKCN home page.

Welcome to NCKCN!

• Select the Edit menu with the mouse. You are going to set NCKCN as the default or "Home" web page.

• Then select the Preferences ... option.

• The Preferences window will open. Here is where you are going to set up Netscape to use NCKCN as your web services. These services include Web Browsing, Email and News.

• Click on the Use Current Page button to select the current active site (which is currently NCKCN) as the web page that will automatically open when you launch Netscape or when you click on the Home button. You will notice that the Location automatically changes to http://www.nckcn.com.

You can return to NCKCN at any time during a web browsing session by clicking on the "Home" button of the browser interface.

That's it for the web browser. Now you can set up your email and news to connect to NCKCN.

NETSCAPE EMAIL SETUP

Netscape Mail is used to send and receive email. To configure Netscape Mail correctly for NCKCN you should already have an active and working account at NCKCN and your Netscape browser and Modem must be able to connect to NCKCN properly. Perform the following steps to configure your email.

• Make sure your Netscape web browser is active and that you are connected via modem to NCKCN.

• Select the Edit menu with the mouse. You are going to set NCKCN as the default or "Home" web page.

• Then select the Preferences ... option.

• The Preferences window will open. Here is where you are going to set up Netscape to use NCKCN as your web services. These services include Web Browsing, Email and News.

• Select the Mail & Groups option to continue setting up you email and news services.

• Select the Identity option and enter your full name (example: John Public) in the Your name: area. Also, carefully type in your email address exactly as supplied by NCKCN. Be very careful that your Caps Lock is not on or that you make any manner of mistake when entering in your NCKCN address (for example: jqp@nckcn.com).

• Now select the Mail Server option. Carefully, and without error or any stray capitalization, enter in your Mail server user name: (this is usually the first part of your email address - for example: if your email address is jqp@nckcn.com, then your user name is probably jqp). Your user name will be given to you by NCKCN.
• Also, type in nckcn.com (exactly as shown) into the Outgoing mail (SMTP) server: and the Incoming mail server areas. The rest of the settings should be as shown below. Be very careful to type exactly as indicated! Do not capitalize and make sure that your Cap Lock is not on.

• Use your mouse and click on the Groups Server option to set up your news services. Type in news.nckcn.com, exactly as shown in the Discussion groups (news) server: area. This will set your system up to receive news from the NCKCN news server. Do not change any other settings from those that are shown below.

• Click on the OK button to save these settings to use NCKCN as your service provider.

You should now be able to access, (read and send) email and use the news services. There are (at least) two ways to bring up the email component of the Netscape program - called Messenger Mailbox. You can either select the Messenger Mailbox option from the Communicator menu or you can click on the Mailbox button of the Component Bar. These two methods are shown below.

The email window will then open.

• The first time during any particular browsing and/or email session that you connect to NCKCN and bring up the Netscape Mail window, a security password window may pop up to verify that you are who you say you are. Supply the correct password as given to you by NCKCN exactly as given to you. Be very careful to capitalize accordingly and make sure that your Caps Lock is not on.

• You can always use your mouse to single click on the Get Msg button. If you have set up your configuration correctly and are connected to NCKCN, clicking on the Get Msg button will get any new messages (that you have not previously received) from NCKCN and send and messages that you have composed and queued up to send.

• Selecting (single clicking with the mouse) the New Msg button will bring up the composition window and allow you to compose an email.

• There are lots of modifications and different ways to handle or modify the way you interact with your Netscape program at this point. Perhaps the best way to learn all of the features and options that Netscape offers is to use the Help menu to investigate on your own.

• To access your newservice, select the Discussions button from the component bar or by selecting the Collabara Discussion Group from the Communicator menu.

This action will bring up the Netscape news reader.

That is all there is to it! Welcome to NCKCN and enjoy your Internet.

When you are finished with your NCKCN connection, simply quit Netscape and your computer will ask if you want to disconnect. Simply click Yes to hang up your modem. The NCKCN system will automatically disconnect you after 15 minutes of inactivity to prevent users from wasting valuable time if the user is not doing anything as well. You can also view/change the Properties of the Dial-Up connection by selecting the Properties button. For more information on setting Windows 95 to automatically save your password (which it will not do by default), look on-line at the PC Info Center link on the NCKCN Support web page at http://www.nckcn.com/Support.

Troubleshooting tips:

If you are having problems connecting:

• Most likely an error is due to incorrect typing of information, especially passwords and user names. Be sure to type lower and upper case exactly like it's supposed to be. Some times users will type in a space here or there without thinking about. As a general rule, there is no such thing as "close enough" with computers.
• If you cannot reach a site on the Internet don't panic, lots of places everyday are down due to maintenance, upgrading or errors. This is a normal occurrence.
• A word of caution about passwords. Your passwords are designed to give you maximum security and peace of mind. Don't give your password to anyone. In fact, the best way to keep youngsters from accessing the Net unsupervised, is of course, not give them your password!
• Make sure to access the help menus. Companies have spent millions of dollars to give you all the help you need to get going. Like it or not, you have to do things on your own on the Internet, and it is mostly self-discovery. But think of the possibilities!
• Make sure and visit the NCKCN Support web page at http://www.nckcn.com/Support/, there are links to almost any question regarding Internet use, programs, and help you can think of.
• If you need to view/change your Dial-up Networking connections (the actual Windows 95 components that connects you to NCKCN) you can got to http://www.nckcn.com/NCKCN/win95/dun/ for more information.

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