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Technical Note #31

RAS - Host and View Node

Subject: Configuring a Host and a View Node to communicate via modems.

Applies To: PMCS 5.0 / Windows NT 3.51. For later versions of PMCS and NT

the process is similiar. Please see your user manuals for exact instructions.

To perform the following tasks, you will need a Windows NT Workstation CD (or
diskettes). Due to the possibility of unique, existing NT system configurations, the
following steps may vary slightly.

RAS - Host Configuration with No Network Adapter
Installed:

1. Access: Main/Control Panel/Network. Network Settings dialog: "Windows

NT Networking is not installed. Install now?". Click: Yes. Note: If you are
not prompted with this dialog box, your NT Networking Software has been
previously installed. If this is the case, and there is no Network Adapters
listed, it will be easier to Remove the installed Network Software and start
again. If there is a Network Adapter Installed, go to the next section in this
document: Host Configuration with a Previously Installed Network Adapter.

2. Windows NT Setup dialog: Insert your original NT installation disks or CD,

enter path, and click Continue.

3. Net Adapter Card Detection dialog: Click: Do Not Detect.

4. Net Adapter Card Detection dialog: Click: Remote.

5. Windows NT TCP/IP Installation Options dialog: Select all Components

check boxes, except Connectivity Utilities. Do not select check box Enable
Automatic DHCP Configuration. Click: Continue.

6. SNMP Service Configuration dialog: Click: OK.

7. Windows NT dialog: FTP security question: Click: Yes.

8. FTP Service dialog: Take all defaults, Click: OK.

9. Remote Access Setup dialog: Automatic restoration of network connections

question: Click: OK.

10. If the correct modem is not displayed, you must Add it now.

11. Your modem should now be displayed and highlighted.

12. Remote Access Setup dialog: Click: Configure.

13. Configure Port dialog: Select radio button: Receive calls only. Click: OK.

14. Remote Access Setup dialog: With your modem displayed and highlighted,

Click: Network.

15. Network Configuration dialog: Select Server Settings check boxes: NetBEUI

and TCP/IP. Select radio button: Require Microsoft encrypted
authentication. Click: OK.

16. RAS Server NetBEUI Configuration dialog: Select radio button: This

computer only. Click: OK.

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This computer

: You should see

17. RAS Server TCP/IP Configuration dialog: Select radio button:

only. Select radio button: Use static address pool. Enter into Begin field:

1.2.3.4. Enter into End field: 1.2.3.14. Click: OK. Note: Any valid address

range can be entered.

18. Remote Access Setup dialog: Click: Continue.

19. Setup Message dialog: Message advising you to install MS Loopback

Adapter: Click: OK.

20. Network Settings dialog: Click: Add Adapter.

21. Add Network Adapter dialog: Select from dropdown list: MS Loopback

Adapter. Click: Continue.

22. MS Loopback Adapter Card Setup dialog: Take the Frame Type default,

Click: OK.

23. Windows NT Setup Dialog: Enter: path. Click: Continue.

24. Network Settings dialog: Click: OK.

25. TCP/IP Configuration dialog: Enter IP Address: 1.2.3.15. Enter Subnet

Mask: 255.0.0.0. Click: OK. Note: Any valid address can be entered.

26. Domain/Workgroup Settings dialog: Take default, Click: OK. Note: You do

not need to take the default.

27. Windows NT Workstation Networking Setup dialog: Click: Restart

Computer.

28. Access: Main/Control Panel/Services.

29. Services dialog: Double-click from list: Remote Access Server.

30. Service dialog: Select Startup Type radio button: Automatic. Click: OK.

31. Services dialog: Click: Close.

32. Shutdown and Restart computer.

33. Access: Remote Access Service/Remote Access Admin. Note

your computer name listed under Server with the Condition as Running. If
you do not see your computer name listed, close Remote Access Admin, wait
one minute, and try again. The RAS Service may not have had enough time
to startup. If you still cannot see it, try typing the computer name in the
Server/Start Remote Access Service/Server dialog box. If this does not start
RAS, see the Administrator Tools/Event Viewer for more information.

34. Remote Access Admin dialog: Click: Users. Click: Permissions.

35. Remote Access Permissions dialog: Click: The user that the view node will

login as. Click check box: Grant dialin permission to user. Click: OK.

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RAS - Host Configuration with a Network Adapter Installed:

1. Access: Main/Control Panel/Network. Click: Add Software.

2. Add Network Software dialog: Select from dropdown list: Remote Access

Service. Click: Continue.

3. Windows NT Setup dialog: Insert your original NT installation disks or CD,

enter path, and click Continue.

4. If the correct modem is not displayed, you must Add it now.

5. Your modem should now be displayed and highlighted.

6. Remote Access Setup dialog: Click: Configure.

7. Configure Port dialog: Select radio button: Receive calls only. Click: OK.

8. Remote Access Setup dialog: With your modem displayed and highlighted,

Click: Network.

9. Network Configuration dialog: Select Server Settings check boxes: NetBEUI

and TCP/IP. Select radio button: Require Microsoft encrypted
authentication. Click: OK.

10. RAS Server NetBEUI Configuration dialog: Select radio button: This