WinIP Tutorial for ODS by Scott Taggart

Make sure you sign up for an ODS account if you haven't already done so! You'll need one! Sign up for your free account here and fill in your details
If all doesn't go well... be sure to post a message to the ODS forums here with details of your problem.
For the purposes of this demonstration, we will be running the current version (2.2.0.1 as of writing) of WinIP and we'll assume we're running a variant of Windows, ie. 9x NT ME or 2K.

1. OK, let's start, first of all download the latest version of WinIP from the download list on the main site
2. Install WinIP, once it is installed you should get an icon within the start menu to start it, start the WinIP program (See diagram 1)


Diagram 1

3. You will see various options available once you have started WinIP up, the first one will be the Protocol option, leave this as it is at ODS
4. The server box, in this you need to type update.ods.org
5. The mail relay box can't be filled in so leave it as it is (See diagram 2 for steps 3, 4 and 5)


Diagram 2

6. Now onto your own information. First of all you need to insert your hostname which will be in the format of whatever.ods.org where ods.org can be replaced with any available domain on ODS
7. Your username is entered here which you entered at sign up
8. Finally your password for your account which was also entered by you at sign up (See diagram 3 for steps 6, 7 and 8)


Diagram 3

9. Finally there is the IP configuration section, this can safely be left with "Let the server determine my IP" checked and the "Current IP" box greyed. (See diagram 4)


Diagram 4

10. Then simply click on start! Hopefully all will go well and it should tell you that your hostname has come online fine