Computing and Networking FAQ
Index of Questions
1. GETTING CONNECTED - BASICS
[1.1] How can I get access to UQNet and the Internet?
[1.2] How much does it cost?
[1.3] What are the names of the UQ news, gopher, ftp and irc servers?
[1.4] How can I get help if I have any problems?
2. EMAIL
[2.1] How do I obtain a UQ email address?
[2.2] What software do I need in order to use email?
[2.3] How to configure Eudora?
[2.4] I can't read my mail messages. What's wrong?
[2.4.1]
"Connecting to host.." message displays for a long time, and then a "timed-out" or "unable to connect to host" message appears.
[2.4.2]
Error message like "..another POP mail process active"
[2.4.3]
Eudora mailbox window displays ok, but it has no messages in it.
[2.4.4]
Cannot open Eudora mailbox - window won't display.
[2.4.5]
Pine hangs when opening INBOX folder.
[2.4.6]
Error message like "ERR Password supplied for ... is incorrect".
[2.5] How do I transfer email messages from student/dingo to my PC?
[2.6] How do I send an attachment in pine?
[2.7] How can I find out the email address of a UQ student or staff member?
[2.8] Can I print email messages to a local printer from pine?
[2.9] How do I set up a single copy of Eudora for Windows to access multiple mail accounts?
[2.10] How do I subscribe/unsubscribe to UQ mailing lists? How can I get more information on UQ mailing lists?
3. WORLD WIDE WEB
[3.1] Where can I get the latest version of Netscape?
[3.2] How can I access the Web when I don't use SLIP/PPP or Windows?
[3.3] How should I configure Netscape for the UQ environment?
[3.4] Why do I get an "application not found" error message when I try to connect to a certain host within Netscape?
[3.5] Why do I get an "Application Error" when I try to run Netscape?
[3.6] I can access UQ web servers ok, but I can't contact any off-campus hosts. What's wrong?
[3.7] I sometimes get "Page contains no data" messages, or the status line just displays "Contacting host..." and nothing else happens. What's wrong?
[3.8] Lately, when I've tried to save any file that is greater that xxx Kb to disk within Netscape, the file has been truncated in size. Why?
[3.9] How do I go about publishing my own web pages?
[3.10] How do I go about publishing web pages for my department?
[3.11] I've created a personal/departmental web page as per instructions. Why do I get an error message 403 whenever I try to browse it?
[3.12] Can I put a counter on my UQ web page?
[3.13] Having to rename all my .htm files to .html is a pain. Can I leave my pages with .htm extensions?
[3.14] Can I use imagemaps in my web pages?
[3.15] Can I run a cgi-bin script from my UQ web page?
[3.16] Several people need to maintain web pages for our department/organization. Can we obtain a special "group network access account" that we can all use for this purpose?
[3.17] What software is available/recommended for developing web pages and where can I get it?
[3.18] What do I need in order to set up my own web server?
[3.19] I've prepared all my web pages on my PC/Mac. How do I upload them to my web subdirectory on dingo/student?
[3.20] How should I configure my web browser to use the UQ proxy servers?
4. TELNET, FTP, NEWS
[4.1] I get garbage on the screen and the cursor keys don't work when I run pine (or nn) during a telnet session. What's wrong?
[4.2] How can I transfer files between a campus host (eg. student, dingo) and my PC/Mac at home?
[4.3] Which telnet program do you recommend, and how/where do I get it?
[4.4] Which ftp client do you recommend?
5. DIALIN ACCESS, SLIP/PPP, MODEMS
[5.1] How much dialin access time do I get?
[5.2] How are the 25 hour per week and 90 min peak time limits calculated?
[5.3] At what times are the modem banks uncongested so I won't get disconnected for exceeding my threshold?
[5.4] Can I get a larger threshold?
[5.5] Which dialup communications package do you recommend?
[5.6] What is SLIP [PPP] and do I need it?
[5.7] What software do I need for SLIP [PPP] and where can I get it?
[5.8] Why don't I get a warning message when I am disconnected because I have exceeded my quota or used up my 90 min peak time limit?
[5.9] Do the UQ modem banks support PPP as well as SLIP?
[5.10] Which is better - SLIP or PPP?
[5.11] How do I configure Trumpet Winsock?
[5.12] Where can I get a Trumpet login script for the UQ modem banks?
[5.13] Can I use Trumpet Winsock with Windows 95?
[5.14a] How do I configure Windows '95 PPP dial-up networking?
[5.14b] Where can I find a dial-up/login script for Windows '95 PPP?
[5.15] How do I configure InterSLIP or MacPPP for dial-up networking?
[5.16] What are "comms overrun" errors, and how can I prevent them?
[5.17] I can dial in and establish a SLIP/PPP session ok, but Netscape and other TCP/IP applications (eg. telnet, Eudora) won't work. What's wrong?
[5.18] Do I really need a high speed modem?
[5.19] Which modem should I buy?
[5.20] Why do I keep losing my dialin connection, or why does my modem keep "dropping carrier"?
[5.21] Why can I only get a 20-26K bps connection even though I have a 28.8K modem?
[5.22] What is the best initialization string to use for my modem?
[5.23] Where can I find more information on troubleshooting modem and dialup communications problems?
[5.24] How can I access the Library CD-ROM databases from home?
[5.25] Where can I find a PPP script for Linux?
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3 Jun 1997
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