I May Resort to Begging for help on this one...

[Spooner]

Just upgraded from Win95 to Win2k on my laptop for work. For some reason, I'm unable to connect to any chat clients now (specifically AOL instant messenger). Under win95, i could put in the proxy information and have it connect. Now, with win2k and the SAME proxy information... I'm unable to connect.

Anyone have any initial ideas why?

 

[Czar]

Either software or networking forum.

You probably have the DNS or Gateway wrongly setup.

 

[Spooner]

I guess i'll shoot this over to another forum. I just don't know if I can handle being away from ATOT for that long.

I'm getting the shakes just thinking about it 😉

 

[Spooner]

I'm gettin no love for this thread in the Networking forum, so I figured I'd bump it in here since this is where all the action happens.

What would be different? A friend of mine that still has win95 can get it up and running using the SAME proxy information.

Anything I should check?

 

[Czar]

Ask him to ping www.yahoo.com and then you do it, if he can and you cant then try pinging the ip for www.yahoo.com, hef he can and you can then its the dns and if he can and you cant then its the gateway.

 

[Spooner]

We both tried pinging www.yahoo.com and both of us timed out right away.

What could that mean?

 

[Czar]

ah ok, then its because you are behind a very nasty firewall and your only way to the internet is through a proxy. Then my guess is that your software isnt setup to use a proxy.

 

[Spooner]

Yeah, this much we know.

We are able to put in the proxy server (in aol's connection properties) under Win95 and it will connect. But this same process does not work under Win2k.

That's what's not making any sense here.

 

[Spooner]

Bump for help this morning, please!

 

[Czar]

Just stop using AOL.

 

[Spooner]

That's not an acceptable solution.

all the friends are on it. Damn wiseass 😉

 

[bunker]

Doesn't AIM have a deal where you can tell it to autodetect your proxy? Did you try that?

 

[Spooner]

It can auto-detect an acceptable port, but you have to manually enter the proxy.

guys, i HAVE all the info I should need to be able to connect. (proxy, port, passwords.. the whole bit).

It WORKS with windows 95. My problem is now that we have Windows 2000, the same settings aren't working. That's the part that's confusing me.