Establishing a connection to vineyard.net does involve a bit of complicated poking around in your computer, but once your are done you shouldn't have to make any changes ever again.

You need to establish the TCP/IP networking protocols on your Windows computer. In the Windows 3.x world, there are a number of program suites available which provide the necessary protocols. The most robust programs are commercial. We can distribute a shareware suite from Trumpet called winsock. winsock works quite well in most situations, but remember that there are alternatives if you have a more complex setup, e.g. Novell clients, Windows for Workgroups, etc.

Here is some additional information that you will need to know about vineyard.net:

Phone number	(508) 696-6650
Baud rate	9600-38400
Nameserver	204.17.195.100
Gateway address	204.17.195.230
Default domain	vineyard.net

Now, let's get started!

Setting up your Windows 3.x

1. Insert the winsock disk into your drive.
2. Using the File Manager copy winzip.exe onto your hard drive (probably c:).
3. Run winzip.exe by hiliting the copy on your hard disk in the File Manager window and selecting File/Run... from the menu bar.
4. The defaults in the WinZip installation dialogs should suffice.

   You have now completed the installation of WinZip 5.6. This a tool for compression, decompression, and archiving of files. It is useful in itself, but once you have used it to decompress winsock, you might want to run the WinZip uninstall program and remove it from your drive. If you do decide to keep it, please respect the author's request for payment of the shareware fee. You might also delete the winzip.exe self-extracting archive from your hard drive; its job is done.

5. Using the File Manager copy winsock.zip onto your hard drive.
6. Select the winsock.zip on your hard drive by hiliting it in the File Manager window and selecting WinZip/Open Archive from the File Manager's newly installed menu. You will see this window:

   

7. Click the right most button, labled CheckOut, and you will be presented with a dialog box similar to this:

   

8. The contents of the winsock.zip archive will be extracted into a directory called trumpet. Type the path name to the point in your file system where you would like trumpet to reside. We reccomend c:\tcp or c:\internet. This way you will have a convenient location for the subsequent TCP/IP client programs (mail client, news client, web browser, etc.) you will aquire.
9. Type the name you would like to use for the program group in the Program Manager in the next text box, and click the OK button. WinZip will create the tcp and trumpet directories, expand the files into the trumpet directory, and create a program group that should look something like this:

   

   Yeah, the names look a little dumb, but you can fix that later.

10. Switch back to WinZip and exit the program. It will give you an oppurtunity to undo your recent task of expansion, click No.
11. Modify the path line in your autoexec.bat to contain a reference to the directory containing the winsock suite. eg.

    path c:\dos;c:\windows;c:\tcp\trumpet

12. Make sure the new path is active by rebooting your computer.
13. Test the path by attempting to start tcpman from the Program Manager. Select File/Run... and type tcpman in the dialog box. If the program does not start up correctly, check the spellings you used setting the path and try again. This is fairly essential.

    Good, you have installed the WinSock suite onto your machine. All that remains is to configure the program to connect properly.

14. If tcpman is not running start it from the Program Manager, and select File/Setup... to display this dialog:

    

15. The only aspect in this dialog that you might have to change is SLIP port. It defaults to com 1, but your modem might be attached to com 2. In which case, replace the 1 with a 2. Click the OK button.
16. Select File/PPP Options... to display the following window:

    

17. Make sure that the Use PAP box is checked, and enter your username and password in the appropriate text boxes. Be very careful of the case you use for your characters. DOS makes no distinction itself; but as a rule, most of the machines on the Internet do. Do not mistakenly leave your [Caps Lock] key depressed while you enter this info. Click the OK button.
18. Select Dialler/Options... to display the last setup dialog:

    

19. Change No automatic login to Automatic login and logout on demand. Click the OK button.
20. Exit from the tcpman program.

    Your setup should be complete. The next logical step is to test your system.

21. Start TrumPing from the Program Manager.

    Ping is a standard TCP/IP utility whose sole purpose is to bounce network packets off one machine, back to the originator, and time how long the bounce takes. It is typically used to test networked machines to see whether they respond and how well.

22. By starting a TCP/IP client that needs a network connection, it should automatically start tcpman first to make the connection.

    You should see this:

    

    Then you should see this:

    

23. If you did not spell your username and password correctly in the File/PPP Options... you will now receive a cryptic error message explaining that your connection has been rejected. Check the spelling and enter the information again. Remember that upper and lower case charecters are entirely different from one another: eg. "phred" is different from "Phred" is different from "pHred."
24. If you connected successfully, Trump Ping will now appear. Type vineyard.net in the box and click Start. You should now see a count of packets successfully bounced from our main host back to your machine. Click Stop and Close once this becomes boring.

    Congrats! You have a working Internet connection!

    Your next step should probably be to set up an e-mail program. In order to send and receive email, you will need to configure Eudora.

Problems?

If you are having problems, you are welcome to send us mail or call, and we'll try to talk you through the setup. However, before you call, you might want to check out your hardware to make sure that your modem and your cable are functioning properly.

1. Run a terminal program (the Terminal in the Accessories group will suffice) and call up our modem. Do this by typing what appears in Bold below:
   ATTD696-6650
   CONNECT 230400
   
   
   Welcome to vineyard.net, router #1
   
   
   Type "PPP DEFAULT" to go into PPP mode.
   Type "telnet {host}" to telnet to a host.
   
   For further information, please talk to your VNI reseller, or call us at 508-696-6688.
   
   -Vineyard.NET.
   
   User Access Verification
   
   Username: type your username here
   Password: type your password here
   router>
   

   Performing the above procedure will verify that your modem works, that your cable works, and that your username and password work.

2. If you don't see the "Welcome to vineyard.net" prompt, then there is something wrong with your cable or modem.
3. If you do see the "Welcome" prompt, but you don't see the "router>" prompt, then you do not have the correct username and password.