# Need macintosh help!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-macintosh-help/223883>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 10, 2004, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-macintosh-help/223883 "2004-01-10T22:51:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2004, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-macintosh-help/223883/1 "2004-01-10T22:51:22Z")

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I’m trying to fix my cousins computer, which is a Mac, as I’m the resident computer expert in the family. Unfortunately the last time I used a Mac was in 2000 :).

It’s pretty simple I hope, they’re using Netscape Navigator 4.75 and it’s stopped automatically dialing in. I can manually dial in fine so all I need to find where to tell it to do it automatically. And I can’t. Help!

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**Author:** ![joshmaker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a587f6/32.png) [@joshmaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joshmaker)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2004, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-macintosh-help/223883/2 "2004-01-11T00:18:45Z")

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What version of the Mac OS are they using?

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**Author:** ![drewbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drewbert/32/15890_2.png) [@drewbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewbert)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2004, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-macintosh-help/223883/3 "2004-01-11T01:44:41Z")

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If they’re using Netscape 4 then they’d better not be using OS X or else I’m gonna have to have a long discussion with your cousin 😉

You’re probably going to find the setting somewhere in the TCP/IP control panel. Look for something that says “Connect automatically when starting TCP/IP applications.”

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**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2004, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-macintosh-help/223883/4 "2004-01-11T11:25:16Z")

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Yep, that’s what it was. Thanks!