Local and Remote Network Connections

The settings in Advanced apply to all Network and Dial-up Connections. You can specify manual dialing preferences, network identification options such as your computer name or the domain to which your computer belongs, and you can install optional networking components such as the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) service or the TCP/IP Print Server. You can also modify the order in which connections are accessed by network services, or the order in which your computer accesses network information.

Operator-Assisted Dialing

If you choose this setting, automatic dial-up settings are overridden where intervention is required. For example, if you are using a dial-up connection where you have to call through a manually operated switchboard.

Dial-Up Preferences

The settings in Dial-up Preferences affect connection creation privileges, Autodial options, and callback options.

You can enable or disable the Dial-up Preferences menu on your users desktops by using the Enable the Dial-up Preferences item on the Advanced menu Group Policy setting. For more information, see Local Group Policy Settings later in this chapter.

Autodial

This preferences lists the available locations where you can enable Autodial. Autodial maps and maintains network addresses to connection destinations, which allows the destinations to be automatically dialed when referenced, whether from an application or from a command prompt. To enable Autodial for a location, select the check box next to the location. To disable Autodial for a connection, clear the check box next to the location.

The following is an example of how Autodial works:

• You are not connected to your ISP, and you click on an Internet address which is embedded in a word processing document.

• You are asked to choose which connection is used to reach your ISP, that connection is dialed, and then you access the Internet address.

• The next time you are not connected to your ISP and you click on the Internet address in the word processing document, the connection that you selected the first time is automatically dialed.

The Autodial feature works only when the Remote Access Auto Connection Manager service is started.

To start the Remote Access Auto Connection Manager service

1. Right-click My Computer , and then click Manage .

2. In the console tree, double-click Services and Applications , and then click Services .

3. In the details pane, right-click Remote Access Auto Connection Manager , and then click Start .

4. Started displays in the Status column.

Callback

The settings in Callback indicate the conditions under which you want to use the feature. For example, you can configure callback to prompt you for a phone number during the dialing process, or you can specify that callback always call you back at a specific number.

Callback options are also configured by your remote access server system administrator on a per-user basis. The Always Callback to server setting overrides Network and Dial-up Connections settings. Therefore, if you have specified Ask me during dialing when the server offers in Network and Dial-up Connections, but your account on the remote access server designates Always Callback to (with a corresponding phone number), callback does not prompt you for a number when you dial in; it always calls you back at the number specified on the server.

Note

If you have specified No callback , but the remote access server is set to Always Callback to , you cannot connect. With this combination of settings, the remote access server requests callback, your computer refuses, and then the remote access server disconnects your connection.

How Callback Works

Callback behavior is determined by a combination of the settings that you specify in Network and Dial-up Connections, and by the remote access server settings designated by your system administrator.

After your call reaches the remote access server, the server determines whether your user name and password are correct. If they are, what happens next depends upon the settings that you have specified in Network and Dial-up Connections, and your remote access server callback settings. Table 21.5 illustrates callback behavior based on these settings.

Table 21.5 Callback Behavior

For more information about how to configure your callback options, see Windows 2000 Help.

Note

If your computer is configured to accept incoming connections, you can enforce callback options on that computer.

Network Identification

Network Identification displays your computer name, and the workgroup or domain to which the computer belongs. You can change the name of your computer, or join a domain by clicking Properties .

Advanced Settings

Windows 2000 uses network providers and bindings in the order specified in Advanced Settings . By changing your provider order, and by changing the order of protocols bound to those providers, you can improve performance. For example, if your LAN connection is enabled to access NetWare and Microsoft Windows networks, which use IPX and TCP/IP, but your primary connection is to a Microsoft Windows network that uses TCP/IP, you can move Microsoft Windows Network to the top of the Network providers list on the Provider Order tab, and move Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) to the top of the File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks binding on the Adapters and Bindings tab.

You can enable or disable the Advanced Settings option on the Advanced menu by using the Enable the Advanced Settings item on the Advanced menu setting in Group Policy. For more information, see Local Group Policy Settings later in this chapter.

Optional Networking Components

Optional networking components support network operations performed by Windows 2000 that are not automatically installed with Windows 2000. Some of these components include the Route Listening Service, Simple TCP/IP Services, SNMP Services, and Print Services for UNIX.