tlug: Internet connections from Linux

[Neil Booth <NeilB@example.com>]

Bought a modem yesterday; to my surprise with help from HOWTOs I've
managed to connect to the internet and browse the web with Netscape. I
can also receive mail with Netscape without a problem.

However, I'm unable to configure Netscape to send mail, because when I
put "mail.iname.com" as my outgoing mail server and press OK, it
complains about the host not being found.

I imagine I have to put something in the /etc/hosts file, but what? I
have no idea what their IP address is. Why does NS for Linux need to
know where this host is, but NS for Windows doesn't?

Also, I have permission problems when trying to dial my ISP as a
non-root user. Could someone tell me how they approach this (in terms of
permissioning?) As I'm just a home user, I'd like to configure it so
anyone can dial out.

Thanks,

                            Neil.

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