Re: Can someone help a Girl out who doesnt understand computers

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From: Joe
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 23:42

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In article <3BA10FEB.4F285B0A@tached.fsnet.co.uk>,
 not@tached.fsnet.co.uk wrote:

> Hope someone can help me out here.
> 
> Im posting this on behalf of a friend of mine who is wanting to get
> online.
> 
> She got a temporary callup number from BT in order to go to the BT
> internet site to choose a package to sign up to.
> 
> She has no problem connecting but as soon as she tries to go to a
> website (any website) she gets an error message saying that the server
> cannot be found.
> 
> This happens with both Navigator and Explorer.
> 
> Of course BT know nothin about Macs and are no help whatsoever.
> 
> Has anyone any idea whats going wrong here? any comments greatly
> appreciated.
> 
> a reply by Email (not@ached.fsnet.co.uk) would be especially appreciated
> (dont think I'd ever be able to find this posting a second time)
> 
> Thanks very much in advance

Do you have a name server setup in your TCP/IP control panel?

Joe

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