Configuring a Windows 95 Dial-Up Client

You configure the Windows 95 dial-up client for each dial-in connection you define in Dial-Up Networking. Configuration consists of selecting the remote access server type to connect to and choosing whether to access the network after connecting to the remote access server. In addition, you can require an encrypted password to connect to a remote access server and check to see if the correct network protocols are installed on the dial-up client. Windows 95 automatically selects the appropriate connection protocol when you select the remote access server type for each Dial-Up Networking connection.

Windows 95 supports only SLIP as a client. The SLIP client software is provided on the Windows 95 compact disc.

To install SLIP

  1. In Add/Remove Programs in Control Panel, click the Windows Setup tab, and then click the Have Disk button.
  2. In the Install From Disk dialog box, click the Browse button, and then type the path name to \ADMIN\APPTOOLS\SLIP\RNAPLUS.INF.
  3. In the Have Disk dialog box, click UNIX Connection For Dial-Up Networking, and then click Install.

To configure the Windows 95 dial-up client

  1. In Dial-Up Networking, right-click a connection icon, and then click Properties.
  2. In General properties, click the Server Type button.

  3. In the Server Types dialog box, select the correct remote access server type.

This server type

Connects to

PPP: Windows 95, Windows NT 3.5, Internet

This is the default; selecting this allows Windows 95 to automatically detect and connect to other remote access servers that are running TCP/IP, NetBEUI, or IPX/SPX over PPP

NRN: NetWare Connect

Novell NetWare Connect running IPX/SPX over NetWare Connect

Windows for Workgroups and Windows NT 3.1

Windows 95 dial-up server; Windows NT version 3.1 or 3.5; Windows for Workgroups version 3.11 running NetBEUI over RAS

SLIP: UNIX Connection

Any SLIP server over TCP/IP

CSLIP: UNIX Connection with IP Header Compression

Any SLIP server over TCP/IP that supports IP header compression


  1. Optionally, click the option named Log On To Network to allow access to the network after connecting to the remote access server. Notice that this option is selected by default.

    If you choose this option, Dial-Up Networking attempts to log you on to the network using the user name and password you typed when you logged on to Windows 95. The logon prompt differs depending on whether the computer is running Client for Microsoft Networks or Client for NetWare Networks, and whether your password for the network is the same as your Windows 95 password. For more information, see Chapter 11, "Logon, Browsing, and Resource Sharing."

  2. Optionally, click the option named Enable Software Compression to compress information before sending it.
  3. Optionally, click the option named Require Encrypted Password to require the user to type in an encrypted password before accessing the dial-up server. For more information, see "Using Security with Dial-Up Networking" later in this chapter.

    Tip If users are having trouble making remote access connections, check to see if a specific server type was selected. When a specific connection type is selected, Windows 95 will not attempt to connect using any other server type.

  4. Optionally, click TCP/IP settings if you are configuring a connection to the Internet. For information, see Chapter 30, "Internet Access"