• Microsoft Vista Home Networking Setup and Options
The most daunting part of upgrading to Windows Vista may be trying to figure out where in the layers of menus the networking and file-sharing options are hidden.
• Tips for Securing Your Home Router
Seemingly minor and easily overlooked settings can still have profound security implications. Here are some steps you can take to make sure your wired or wireless home router — and by extension, your network — is as secure as possible.
Most Popular Reviews
• Microsoft Windows Home Server
If you have a home network, you'll welcome the easy file sharing, remote access and the image-based backup features of Windows Home Server.
• Iomega StorCenter Network Hard Drive
Iomega's fourth generation StorCenter Network Hard Drive brings many of the features found in higher-end storage devices down to an attractive price.
• MikroTik's The Dude
This free tool delivers many of the same capabilities that you'd find in pricey network monitoring tools. As long as you don't mind tinkering, The Dude is a decent network utility that should be worth the download.
NOTE:
These instructions apply only if you are using Wingate 2.X or another
proxy-based program.
They do not apply if you are using ICS, Sygate, or any other NAT based
sharing program or hardware router.
So you've been web surfing with all of your computers sharing your Internet
connection, but it's getting to be a pain to not be able to respond
to "MailTo"s on web pages or read your mail from the shared
computers. You want mail! Here's how...
Services, please!
Getting email to work is a little tricky. You need to set up
both a POP3
Proxy and TCP Mapping service for SMTP
in Wingate.
You can consult these Wingate
Knowledge Base articles for help with setting up the POP3
proxy service, which allows you to receive mail, but setting
up the SMTP service that allows you to send mail is less
clear.
Here's how you set up SMTP so you can send
mail. This is based on info found in your WinGate help file under
"Adding a mapped link":
Make sure Wingate is running and login to the Gatekeeper
program.
Right click on the "Services" icon and select New->Service->TCP
Mapping Service.
Make the following entries in the specified Tabs of the "TCP
mapping service properties" dialog box:
General tab
Service Name - "SMTP mapping"
Description - Leave as is or change if you want
Connections to service- check the box and enter "25"
for the port #
Default mapping - check the box and enter the name
of your ISP's SMTP server
(The dialog box should look like this when you're done, except
that it will have your ISP's SMTP server information.)
Bindings tab
No changes are needed here. This tab should look like this,
except that the IP address in the lower "Available"
area will be different, or absent depending on whether you are
connected to the Internet while you are adding this service.
Interfaces tab
- Check that the "Connections will be made out on any
interface" radio button is selected.
Policies tab
Check that the Right "users can access this service"
is selected.
Check that the "Default rights (System policies) drop
down box shows "may be used instead".
Check that there are no Recipients specified in the
large middle box.
Click "OK" to close the properties dialog box and go to
the Gatekeeper menu bar and click on the Save icon or select File->Save
from the menu.
You should now have a "SMTP mapping" service icon
showing under the Services icon in gatekeeper and the service
should be running, i.e. shouldn't show an "X" icon.
The SMTP service is now setup and running.
Before you go... So the services that you need to handle email are installed.
Great! Before you can send mail, however, you need to
follow the Wingate instructions and go to your email program to setup
your mail to work through the Proxy server. Here some hints that
may help that process:
Enter "192.168.0.1" when asked for the name of
the POP, and SMTP servers and not "Wingate"
as described in the WinGate help. This avoids any problems with translating
system names to IP addresses.
Make sure you use your POP account name and
not your email address. Different email programs refer to this
information in different ways: - In Netscape 4.X, it's referred to as the "Outgoing mail
server user name". - In Eudora, it's called "POP account"
No matter what it's called, make sure you don't enter your email
address (usually something like "yourname@yourISP.com").
Also be sure to enter the Wingate delimiter character "#"
at the proper point in the POP address.
NOTE:
These instructions apply only if you are using Wingate 2.X or another
proxy-based program.
They do not apply if you are using ICS, Sygate, or any other NAT based
sharing program or hardware router.
- In Netscape 4.X, it's referred to as the "Outgoing mail
server user name".