How can I use Netscape with NetCom as an ISP?
Applies to: Navigator and Communicator (all versions)Operating Systems: Windows 3.x (primarily) and Windows 95
Problem: "I use NetCom and lock up when sending large messages or messages with attachments."
Solution:
"The answer is the NETCOM Winsock.dll is the culprit..I have now installed Trumpet 2.1f and I have successfully sent an e-mail with an ATTACHMENT...you have to get the Trumpet login script correct and that's what I have been messing with the past three days. Go to http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/1180/on the Web to get the best info and follow the info exactly. Don't use the login.cmd script with Trumpet, it doesn't work. E-mail me if you have any questions. Other places to look are:
http://www.netcom.com/bin/webtech
http://www.webster-image.com/iis/PCsHe1pPage/index.htm
There are excellent step-by-step instructions for configuring Trumpet to work with a Netcom Netcruiser account on the Netcom WebTech pages ...in particular, see this one This page also has a link to a very good custom login script." Jim Fuller
"I agree with Jim on using the Netcom instructions - I used them when I decided to switch to Trumpet and it dropped straight in. It is important to follow these instructions exactly, including using the automatic login script, and its associated instructions. Basically, this is just a replacement for the NetCruiser software, not for the Netcom account. You still usethe same phone number etc. The only problem it is known to fix is lock-ups when sending large messages. How do you know whether the problem is in NetCruiser or Netscape? As far as I have been able to find out, it only happens with the combination of the two of them, so it could be either a NetCruiser bug that only shows up when Netscape is around, or a Netscape bug that only shows up when NetCruiser is around. I think it is going to take someone with access to the relevant standards and a way of tracing communications between them to find out which.
Trumpet is taking excessive amounts of time, 2 to 3 weeks, to process registrations. Register VERY early in the evaluation period, or you will have to work out how to defeat their lock-out." Patricia Shanahan
"Try http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/1180/entitled Using Trumpet on NetCruiser Accounts. The procedure described there, though a little abstruse, works... or at least it worked with me (Netscape 2.0 w/ a Netcom account)." Richard Benjamin Grant
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