Some research led me to this program. It is untested but it is the most inexpensive solution to the problem of several computers sharing outlook calendars. Other solutions were from $49 to $99 per workstation.
Archive for June, 2006
Outlook for small peer-to-peer networks
Friday, June 30th, 2006Nice home networking information site
Friday, June 16th, 2006I found this while looking for information to switch workstations connecting to a Win 2003 server over from dynamic IPs to static IPs. They had the answer I wanted and it looks like they may have quite a few other answers as well…when the time comes to need them.
The answer I found is at:
http://www.homenethelp.com/web/howto/static-ip-address.asp
The home page of HomeNetHelp.com
XP Win98 VPN BEFSX41
Wednesday, June 14th, 2006Well this took so long to figure out the little hurtles that it is going to be worth writing it all out. I am so grateful to all the people who have taken the time to post their solutions to this incredibly messy job of creating a Virtual Private Network.
I have used a Win98 PC connected to a Linksys BEFSX41 VPN IPsec-PassThrough router which was connected to a Cable Broadband modem.
I also used a TheGreenBow VPN Client on an IBM Thinkpad connected through a 56k dialup phone connection.
Thats what I tested with.
There were three main stumbling blocks that took hours of tweaking around to learn how to overcome. One was discovering a reasonable VPN Client. One was getting the BEFSX41 VPN settings to match the TheGreenBox VPN Client settings. Another was adjusting the network settings for the dialup connections (that was so it had NetBios and Windows file sharing).
I’m way too tired to finish this today but I wanted to get a start.
Women bloggers
Sunday, June 11th, 2006Melonie, the blogger at Just a Bump in the Beltway, was commenting on (or should I say complaining about) how few women were invited to participate in the YearlyKos event. The event is put on by people gathered aroung the DailyKos blog run by Markos.
I read her post about sexism and the event and commented a few times myself. I was curious about political bloggers who are women so I decided to do a google search for women political bloggers. I found some great stuff, but no great list of political women bloggers that was categorized in any way (maybe they defy categorization).
But before I go into that search I went to the Kosopedia to find commentary on the sexism issues Melodie brought up. If you read that it might help make sense of why Melodie left DailyKos and started Just a Bump.
The one article I read briefly is from Kevin Drum with the Washington Monthly primarily about how few editiorial writers are women.
I am going to leave this post for now. Even if I never get back to it you’ll have some great stuff to browse.
BEFSX41 Linksys VPN Router setup
Saturday, June 10th, 2006Okay, so this only took a year of procrastination that included 100′s of dollars to become educated about, but I finally have it. Now I can share it with whoever would wind up here.
The directions for this thing are terrible and the wizard was useless, but I’m here to help with that. These directions are for a cable setup. I think it will work okay with DSL but I’ll be exploring that next week and I’ll report back on that experience.
First, connect a cable from the cable modem to the BEFSX41, then connect from the BEFSX41 to the PC. Now power on.
Select RUN from the start menu and type WINIPCFG and hit enter. Select from the drop down list the ethernet card you are using. See picture below:
Click the “release” button then the “renew” button. You are now connected to the BEFSX41 router.
Open a browser, click on the “stop” button ’cause it ain’t going nowhere on the internet yet.
Into the browser address bar type http://192.168.1.1/
Leave the username blank and type Admin into the password box (that is unless someone changed things in which case you’d need to use the ‘reset’ button on the back of the router).
Select the “Status” tab on the top main menu.
Below on the page there will be two buttons.
Click on the “DHCP Release” button first.
Now clikc on the “DHCP Renew” button.
That should do it. You should now be able to open the home page on your browser.
If you have encountered any problems along the road here unplug your cable modem, leave it sit until the count of 20 then plug it back in. Wait until the lights are all working and try the above steps again.
Hope this helps you, unless I miss-remembered a step that should do it.