How to configure your computer for the Eastern Network

By Drew Cope and Tracey Jones 01.27.2001

  1. Click on the Start menu
  2. Click settings
  3. Click control panel
  4. Click network
  5. Under the Configuration Tab:
    1. First

i.         Highlight any clients (descriptions with blue computer icons next to them) and then click the remove button.

ii.       In the box labeled “The following network components are installed” verify that your network card is listed (it has a green icon next to it) and that you have the TCP/IP protocol listed and labeled similarly to your network card adaptor.

iii.      If your network card is not there, consult a guru

iv.     If TCP/IP is not there

·        Click the add button

·        Click protocol

·        Click add

·        Click Microsoft

·        Scroll down the right hand list and select TCP/IP

·        Click the OK Button

v.       Optional (may be necessary on some machines)

·        Select the TCP/IP protocol from the components list

·        Click properties

·        Click the DNS Configuration Tab

·        Click the circle labeled enable DNS

·        Enter your login name into the host box

·        Enter Eastern.Edu into the domain box

·        Enter 204.78.0.198 into the DNS Server Search Order box

·        Click Add

·        Click ok

    1. Second

i.         Click on Client for NetWare Networks

ii.       Click add

iii.      Click client

iv.     Click Add

v.       Click on Microsoft

vi.     Click on Client for NetWare Networks

vii.    Click the “OK” button

  1. Under the Identification Tab:
    1. Where it says computer name, type in your Login Name (the first part of your eastern e-mail address)
    2. Where it says workgroup, type the name of the dorm you live in (Doane, Guffin, Gallup, Gough, Hainer, NCH, Kea)
    3. Where it says computer description, type whatever you want, cause it really doesn’t matter but if you have a laptop, don’t tell people on the network that you have a laptop.  That’s just dumb.
  2. Under Access Control: 
    1. click the circle next to “User-level access control”
    2. Type MOSES in the blank field at the bottom of that screen where it says: “Obtain list of users and groups from”
  3. Click okay
  4. If it asks for you windows CD, put it in the CD-Rom Drive.
  5. If you don’t have your disk, try entering C:\Windows\options\Cabs
    1. If that doesn’t work, borrow a disk from a friend!
  6. When it asks you to reboot your Computer, click yes
  7. You should get a login screen.
  8. If you don’t…
    1. Make sure that your network cable is plugged in to both the computer and the wall.
    2. Check to see if the lights are on in your network card.  (look at the back of your computer where the cable plugs in)
    3. If the lights aren’t on, contact Computing at ext 1726 and ask them to verify that your room is turned on.
    4. If the lights are on and you didn’t get a login screen, then the server is currently down.
  9. If you are using a hub…
    1. Make sure that the cable going to the wall is plugged into jack 6, and that the computers are plugged into any of the other jacks 1-4, but NOT jack 5.

 

 

TO CONFIGURE EMAIL

  1. Open outlook express.
  2. If it asks you if you want this to be your default mail program, click YES.
  3. Click Tools
  4. Click Accounts
  5. Click Add
  6. Click Mail
  7. Type your full name as you want it to appear in emails
  8. click next
  9. Click the circle next to “I already have an e-mail account”
  10. enter your eastern email address complete with @eastern.edu
  11. click next
  12. change “incoming mail server” from POP3 to IMAP
  13. Set both “incoming” and “outgoing mail server” fields to Solomon.eastern.edu
  14. click next
  15. Type in your login name for the account name
  16. type in your email password
  17. Check the “remember password” box if you like
  18. Leave “log on using Secure Password Authorization” blank
  19. Click Next
  20. Click Finish
  21. If it asks you to download IMAP folders now, click yes.