Connecting a Notebook

You must have a network card in your notebook computer to connect to the PIELTER network. Extra ethernet cables can be found on the shelf over the server (PIE). You can plug the ethernet cable either directly into the hub (also on the shelf) or in the living room behind the couches.

Two protocals are used to communicate over the network: NETBUEI (now called Client for Microsoft Networks) for LAN and TCP/IP for WAN (see Network Troubleshooting for descriptions of LAN and WAN). If you only want to be able to connect to network neighborhood to access data on in-house computers, then you only need to install the NETBUEI protocal, if not already installed. If you need an internet connection, you will need to install the TCP/IP protocal, and configure it correctly (see below).

We are now running a DHCP server, so if your TCP/IP protocal is setup to work with a DHCP server, then you should be able to just plug your computer in and your done. If you don't have DHCP setup (most notebook are though), then you can either turn it on, or set up communications manually. See below

Installing protocals. Under settings, control pannel, click on Network. Click on the protocals tab. If not already installed, you must add either/or NETBUEI, and/or TCP/IP protocals. NETBUEI requires no setup after being installed. If TCP/IP is already installed, then make sure to write down the current settings so that you can restore them when you return to your home institution. Double click on TCP/IP protocal to configure with the following settings:

• IP Address between: 192.168.1.2 and 192.168.1.99
• Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
• Default Gateway: 192.168.1.254
• DNS Service 1: 216.38.65.1
• DNS Service 2: 216.38.65.2