I am curious, so each time I make a substantial change to a system, I have a look in the “Control-Panel” on what the system has actually installed.
In this case, after having installed “Dial-Up Networking/Remote Access“, lets check the “Network“-applet:
 | On a Network, each system needs a UNIQUE name, and on Microsoft systems, there is always the “Workgroup”. |
 | The system has install additional services, (like as having a REAL Network-board installed). Some of these services have no active role, when connecting to the Internet and just “surfing the Web”, but the systems insists on all these components, you CANNOT un-install them (to try to save memory). |
 | Lets verify the Protocol setup: “IPX/SPX” is called “NWLink IPX/SPX” and is installed by default for “Auto Detect“ of the Frame-Typ ( see “Properties“), which usually works fine and does NOT need to changed. To enable Windows NT to use “IPX/SPX“ to communicate to other systems, it requires in addition the “NWLink NetBIOS” to be installed. Although “TCP/IP” protocol is installed, nothing can be configured here, because for Dial-Up Networking, all “TCP/IP” setting/properties are defined as part of the specific connection (because the values could be and are most the time different for each connection). |
 | If you do NOT have a network-board (in addition to your modem), then the Tab: “Adapters” is empty (it does NOT show the Dial-Up Adapter/Modem, as Windows95 is showing it). But then looking at the tab:”Bindings” and expanding the list-items by clicking on the ‘+’ signs, the logical connections (“bindings“) between the Services, Protocol and the “Remote Access WAN Wrapper” (which is your modem) are displayed. |
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There is an additional icon in the “Control-Panel” to check/configure “Dial-Up Networking”:
the “Dial-Up Monitor“:
 | The “Dial-Up Monitor” shows for active connections the statistical information, on how much data has been transferred |
 | use the preferences to define any sounds to indicate connection events and on how to display the “Dial-Up Monitor” |
We checked out setup, now we are ready to define our first connection:
 | Define a Dial-Up Networking Connection |
