These pages are designed to help you set-up RAS (Remote Access Service) to connect you to Localdial.Com using Windows NT Version 4.0.

To create a RAS connection to Localdial.Com, you will firstly need to open Dial Up Networking. Follow the screen shot as shown here.

If you have no current phonebook entries, you will be presented with the dialogue box shown here. Simply click on OK to begin the connection wizard.

In this first box, simply put in a name for your connection to Localdial.Com. This text is only used as a label, so you can put pretty much anything in here, but calling it Localdial.Com makes sense. Click on next

This screen is extremely simple to complete, but is VERY important.

Simply make sure that ALL 3 boxes on this screen have ticks in them, and you can't go far wrong.

Click on next

This screen is where you enter the phone number to dial into Localdial.Com. If you are not using any kind of exchange to dial out, it is advisable to remove the tick from use telephony dialling properties, as this can cause problems.

Leave the area code box blank, type the relevant telephone number into the telephone number box and then click on next

All you need to do for this screen is to click on next no matter what type of connection you have.

If you select SLIP as your connection protocol, your connection will not work.

Basically, to connect to Localdial.Com you won't need to run a script. Simply click on next

You do not need to enter a fixed IP address, simply click next.

This screenshot requires an important piece of information.

If you want to have a useable connection, make sure that your screen shows the DNS server shown here (195.226.131.251). If you get this information wrong, your machine will not be able to resolve hostnames (e.g. www.localdial.com) to IP addresses (e.g. blah.blah.blah.blah)

The entry for WINS server MUST be left empty, otherwise your connection will not function correctly.

Click on Next

Congratulations! You are almost finished. There are one or two more things we need to check.

Unless you want to change any of the previous settings (in which case you would simply click Back) simply click on Finish.

Now we need to change a setting or two in the connection properties.

Simply click on more then Edit entry and modem properties

Once you have this screen, click on the Server tab and click on the TCP/IP Settings button as shown here.

All you need to do in this section is to enter the address for the secondary DNS server. Simply put in 195.226.182.3 as the address, click OK and everything should work without any major problems.

Well, that was simple wasn't it? Now all you need to do, is click Dial and you'll be presented with the following screen....

Just enter your username and password into the relevant boxes.

Leave the Domain box empty. If there is ANYTHING in the domain box, your login will fail, and you will not be able to connect successfully to Localdial.Com. If there is anything in this box, simply highlight and delete it.