On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 17:09:58 -0600, Sam Lewis wrote:

 

Carl Gehr wrote:

   

On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 15:53:28 -0600, Sam Lewis wrote:



     

Carl Gehr wrote:

  

       

This is probably quite elementary for many of you, but I'm not up on
the local LAN and Peer tools...

My desk is on the bottom level; my wife's is two floors up.  We have a
simple communications problem:

* Phone rings.
* Wife answers; the call's for me; I'm on the other line.

=>  What is a really quick and easy way to send a simple message from
'up there' to 'down here' without a lot of set up?   Ideally, the
message would just pop up on my screen and stay there until I kill it. More than one?  Pop another message window.

Seems simple enough...  I'm just more simple...  ;-)  Yes, she could always send an E-Mail, but that seems like a bit
excessive, when we have a LAN that both systems are using.  Both
running eCS 1.0.

Thanks,
Carl



    
         

Put Network Messaging in your startup group.  eCS usually does this automatically when installed.  Also you  could use the AOL Instant Messenger Express.  It can be started from Mozilla.
Sam
  

       

Thanks, Sam!

I thought that might be an option, but the unHELPful text is almost
worthless.  It says, for example, "Type a destination..."  But, in the
HELP [not for the helpless], it simply repeats, "Enter a
destination"...  What is a 'destination'?  Is it a dotted-quad? An
Internet Name?  Some UserName that I have to set up somewhere?  Where
does it come from????  <:-(       

It means computer name.  I would just Click on the Broadcast button and choose entire network.
   

I had to really do some searching to find the 'computer name' that was
used when I did the Broadcast.   I finally found it in:
C:\ibmlan\IBMLAN.INI
But, this does not tell me how it was actually specified.  Does it have
any relationship to the Config.Sys:
SET HOSTNAME=xxxxx
The reason I ask is that the name I found in Config.Sys is somewhat
different from the name that showed up in the 'FROM' field in the
Network Messaging window.  But, the FROM name did appear in some older,
backup copies of Config.Sys.  [It appears that I changed it earlier
this year, but I have no idea why.]  So, at this point;

Network Messaging used:
HostABC
While the Set in Config.Sys says:
ABCHost
And, IBMLAN.INI has:
ABCHost

Is there, or should there be a connection between these two?

I did the Broadcast.  But, I have no clue about where it went nor how
it would know where to send it.  I have not done anything to 'define
the network' to any system on the LAN, other than what appears in the
above.  And, these were purely accidental or happened as a result of
something that must have been set when eCS was installed.
 

 

Just for clarification:  While these systems are on the same LAN, they
are not 'connected' in any way.  No Peer.  No sharing of anything;
except, of course, the link to the DSL to the Internet.

     

So how do the two computers access the same DSL device?  Do you use a hub?  Need more info.
   

Well, actually four systems.  Two desktops and two TPads.  One of each
is running eCS 1.0, the other two are running Warp4 + FP12.  The eCS
system have Peer installed, but I don't recall doing it for the Warp4
systems. The connections are:


ISP<====>\                                          /Desktop1
         \                                        /
          \DSL-Modem<=>\                         /   /Desktop2
                        \Linksys-8-Port-Router==<---<
                                                 \   \TPad1
                                                  \
                                                   \TPad2

So, I guess they are 'physically' connected, but nothing intentionally
was done to 'logically' connect them.

 

If both computers are on the internet it may be easier and more straight forward to use the AOL AIM Express.  That's what I use from my house to workshop plus it other uses.
   

If this Internet Messaging works as it appears, that may be adequate. I'd rather not initiate any traffic that leaves the local LAN.
 

 

Sam

   

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