Setting up a Dial Up Account for the iMac</TITLü> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" üONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META CONTENT="MSHTML 5.00.2614.3500" NAME=GENERATOR> <META NAME="description" CONTENT="Professional Internet Service Provider"> <META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="internet, service, provider, isp, professional, business, web, dial, up, connection, email, e-mail, publish, page, design, forward, company, organisation, mobile, isdn"> <META NAME="rating" CONTENT="General"> <META NAME="revisit-after" CONTENT="7 days"> <META HTTP-EQUIV="reply-to" CONTENT="sales@ukbusiness.com"> <META HTTP-EQUIV="copyright" CONTENT="ukbusiness.com - 2001-2002"> </HEAD> <BODY LINK="#0000ff" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"> <table width="98%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" vspace="0" hspace="0" align="center"> <tr valign="top"> <td> <div align="center"> <img src="../graphics/settingUpAnAccount.gif" width="323" height="36"><br> <img src="../graphics/forTheiMac.gif" width="179" height="30"> </div><br> <font color="#003366" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">This page offers help for the settings required when running through the internet setup assistant on a Macintosh running operating system 8.5. Most versions of the Mac operating system 8 and above have a similar setup assistant so this should be applicable. </font><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <p><font color="#003366" size="2">Upon starting your Mac click on the apple menu and go down to internet access. There you can select the Internet Setup Assistant.</font></p> </font> <p align="center"><img src="../GRAPHICS/imac001.jpg" width="300" height="260"></p> <p><font color="#003366" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Once you have clicked this you will be presented with a wizard asking if you would like to setup your machine for internet access.</font></p> <p><font color="#003366" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Click yes and the wizard will advance to the next screen.</font></p> <p align="center"><img src="../GRAPHICS/imac002.jpg" width="312" height="246"></p> <p><font color="#003366" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> The next screen will ask if you already have an internet account.</font></p> <p><font color="#003366" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Click yes in this box.</font></p> <p align="center"><img src="../GRAPHICS/imac003.jpg" width="312" height="246"></p> <p><font color="#003366" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Now you should be into the following window, which explains what the wizard will be asking for.</font></p> <p><font color="#003366" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Click on the arrow next to the 1.</font></p> <p align="center"><img src="../GRAPHICS/imac004.jpg" width="317" height="251"></p> <p><font color="#003366" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The screen you are shown next asks you for a name for this configuration.<br> Enter this as UKBusiness, and select a modem as how you will be connecting to the internet.</font></p> <p><font color="#003366" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Then again click the right arrow at the bottom to go onto the next window.</font></p> <p align="center"><img src="../GRAPHICS/imac005.jpg" width="317" height="251"></p> <p><font color="#003366" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> The window asks for some details about your modem. Your modem should be selected already in the modems list, and the port should also be configured already.</font></p> <p><font color="#003366" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Leave the selection on Tone dialling and click on the arrow to go to the next screen.</font></p> <p align="center"><img src="../GRAPHICS/imac006.jpg" width="317" height="251"></p> <p><font color="#003366" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">On this window, you will be asked for the phone number your internet connection will be dialling into. This may differ depending on which account you have, fill in the appropriate number, then enter your username and password into the following fields.</font></p> <p><font color="#003366" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Click the next screen arrow when you have done this.</font></p> <p align="center"><img src="../GRAPHICS/imac007.jpg" width="317" height="251"></p> <p><font color="#003366" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The next screen asks if you use a script when connecting to UKBusiness. Leave the selection to No and click the arrow to go on.</font></p> <p></p> <p align="center"><img src="../GRAPHICS/imac008.jpg" width="317" height="251"></p> <p><font color="#003366" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> The next screen asks if you need to enter an IP address for this configuration.</font></p> <p><font color="#003366" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">UKBusiness assigns one of these when you connect, so select No and click on the arrow to proceed.</font></p> <p align="center"><img src="../GRAPHICS/imac009.jpg" width="317" height="251"></p> <p><font color="#003366" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">This window asks for the name server addresses and the domain name.</font></p> <p><font color="#003366" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">UKBusiness assign DNS information when you connect, so leave this form blank.</font></p> <p><font color="#003366" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Click Next.</font></p> <p align="center"><img src="../GRAPHICS/imac010.jpg" width="325" height="256"></p> <p><font color="#003366" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> The next window asks for your email address and password.</font></p> <p><font color="#003366" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Fill in your email address (yourname@yourdoamin.co.uk) in the first box, then your password in the second box (as pointed out you can leave the password blank if you wish to enter the password only when it is required).</font></p> <p align="center"><img src="../GRAPHICS/imac011.jpg" width="324" height="256"></p> <p><font color="#003366" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> This window will ask for the servers which your machine will retrieve and send mail to.</font></p> <p><font color="#003366" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Enter into the first box server.ukbusiness.com then fill the second box with server.ukbusiness.com.</font></p> <p><font color="#003366" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Click on the arrow to go onto the next screen.</font></p> <p align="center"><img src="../GRAPHICS/imac012.jpg" width="329" height="260"></p> <p><font color="#003366" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> This screen will ask for a news server address, if you have any news servers you subscribe to then you must fill them in here. If you do not subscribe to newsgroups then leave this option blank and then click on the arrow to go to the next screen.</font></p> <p align="center"><img src="../GRAPHICS/imac013.jpg" width="330" height="260"></p> <p><font color="#003366" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> The next window will ask if you use a proxy server on your internet connection. Select No and click on the arrow to go onto the next screen.</font></p> <p align="center"><img src="../GRAPHICS/imac014.jpg" width="330" height="260"></p> <p><font color="#003366" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> The final screen in the wizard tells you that you have entered all the information required for this connection and to click Go Ahead to complete the setup.</font></p> <p><font color="#003366" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">You can uncross the Connect when Finished box, then click go Ahead.</font></p> <p align="center"><img src="../GRAPHICS/imac015.jpg" width="330" height="260"></p> <p><font color="#003366" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> The machine will then update the setup, taking a few moments while it writes the necessary configuration.</font></p> <p align="center"><img src="../GRAPHICS/imac016.jpg" width="336" height="266"></p> <p><font color="#003366" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Once this is done you will be taken back to the desktop.</font></p> <p><font color="#003366" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Opening a program which requires an internet connection like Internet Explorer. Or Netscape, will send a request to TCP/IP for a connection. This will prompt the opening of the connection you have just established and you will see a screen like the following telling you that it is attempting to create a connection.</font> </p> <div align="center"><img src="../GRAPHICS/imac017.jpg" width="336" height="167"></div> </td> </tr> </table> </BODY> </HTML>