Description Vlad Klicnik 2001-10-10 21:48:37 EDT

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From: "Dale King" <KingD@TCE.com>
Newsgroups: ibm.software.websphere.studio.workbench
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 7:26 PM
Subject: Another issue related to help system


> While we are on the subject of help and the internal web server, let me
> relate one of my annoyances with the use of a web server for the help. I
am
> using Eclipse on a laptop and I also use Outlook Express as my mail reader
> on that laptop to read newsgroups including this one. I typically do most
of
> my news reading and replying while disconnected from the network and
> synchronize when I get to work. Therefore when I am reading news I have it
> set to work off-line. Unfortunately the on-line vs. off-line setting for
> outlook express and IE are connected.
>
> So I have a conflict if I happen to be reading Eclipse help and reading
news
> at the same time, which I frequently do. To read Eclipse help I have to
> "connect" to be able to get to what it thinks is some server on the
network.
> But this takes outlook express out of off-line mode and it gives me errors
> when I try to post as it tries to contact the server. If I put outlook
> express in off-line mode then Eclipse is going to ask me to connect which
> puts outlook express back in on-line mode.
>
> In case you are wondering I have seen no correlation between this and the
> lock-ups, so I don't think this is related.
> --
>  Dale King


NOTES:

 	DB (8/29/2001 3:48:34 PM)

If you install the loopback adapter in Win 2000 you can access your local
machine from the network even without a network cable.  It is a software
device driver on the install CD from Microsoft.

"dorian" <birsan@ca.ibm.com> wrote in message
news:9lgl5g$tu0$1@news.boulder.ibm.com...
> Dale,
>
> Yes, it is unfortunate to have to alternate between off-line/on-line as
you
> swtich from Outlook to Eclipse, and I think we should try to find a better
> solution in the help system for this kind of scenario.
>
> Is there a way to have Outlook/Internet Explorer/Winsock be able to
> recognize local addresses and allow communication with them even in
off-line
> mode?
>
> Dorian
>
> "Dale King" <KingD@TCE.com> wrote in message
> news:9lf1om$170s$2@news.boulder.ibm.com...
> > While we are on the subject of help and the internal web server, let me
> > relate one of my annoyances with the use of a web server for the help. I
> am
> > using Eclipse on a laptop and I also use Outlook Express as my mail
reader
> > on that laptop to read newsgroups including this one. I typically do
most
> of
> > my news reading and replying while disconnected from the network and
> > synchronize when I get to work. Therefore when I am reading news I have
it
> > set to work off-line. Unfortunately the on-line vs. off-line setting for
> > outlook express and IE are connected.
> >
> > So I have a conflict if I happen to be reading Eclipse help and reading
> news
> > at the same time, which I frequently do. To read Eclipse help I have to
> > "connect" to be able to get to what it thinks is some server on the
> network.
> > But this takes outlook express out of off-line mode and it gives me
errors
> > when I try to post as it tries to contact the server. If I put outlook
> > express in off-line mode then Eclipse is going to ask me to connect
which
> > puts outlook express back in on-line mode.
> >
> > In case you are wondering I have seen no correlation between this and
the
> > lock-ups, so I don't think this is related.
> > --
> >  Dale King
> >
>
>