Starting with mIRC 5.3
and over, if you right click this button, a popup menu of your top 15 irc servers
is displayed and you can connect to any of those by just clicking it.
 Click on any tab on the above image for more information.
IRC servers Tab
The sever list is in Drop list format, you have to
choose a server name and press the [Connect to IRC
server!] button.
You can
edit
a server or if you know the
address
of a server (eg. springfield.mo.us.undernet.org) you
can
add
a new server. The port number is usually 6667. If
the server allows connections on different ports, you
can enter them all separated by commas eg. 6667,6668,6669
and mIRC will pick one randomly each time it connects
to the server.
Real name:-
Use your real name or whatever you like. It will appear
in your /whois information.
E-Mail address:-
Enter your real email address. Try not to cheat. The
username part of the email address is used to register
with the server.
Nick name:-
Use any nick which you think describes you well. Avoid
using rude or offending nicks.
Alternate:-
Enter an alternate nickname so that if the first nickname
is in use when you try to log on, the alternate will
be tried. Remember that on some servers (like Efnet)
you can register your nick and on some (like Undernet)
you cannot.
Invisible mode:-
Tick the box next to it if you want to connect to the
IRC server in +i mode.
Simple isn't it..!
Note
The invisible mode makes you invisible to the
/who #channelname command. Meaning that other people
cannot find you by searching on IRC unless they know
your exact nickname. No wild carded search on you by
the /who command on your IP Address or real name will
deliver your current nickname or other information
to others. It does not make you invisible to people
in the same channel as you, or even to yourself :)
Local Info Tab
If you try to connect to a server and get the message
*** Unable to resolve local host
or you get connected to a server but see that you
cannot DCC Send/Chat, then your Local info. is not
set up correctly.
Try
the following:-
Clear
Local Host:
and
IP Address
Check On connect, always get:
Local Host
.
You will notice that
IP Address
is also checked but dimmed.
From
Method
select
Server
. mIRC will look up your local host and resolve it
to an IP address.
If again you cannot get a connection get in touch with
your ISP.
Options Tab
At the bottom of this tab you will see
Default Port
with the number 6667.
This allows you to specify a default server port that
will be used in case you forget to specify a port for
a server.
You see!!, Khaled even thinks about atherosclerotic
people, like myself :-)
Identd Tab
mIRC can act as an identd server and sends the specified
User ID and System as identification. This will be
more useful to some people than others. In general
it is better to leave it active as some systems might
refuse a connection if there is no reply to an identd
request.
Enable Identd server:-
Check the box
User ID:-
Is your account or user name on your system. For most
people this will be the User ID portion of their email
address (the text before the @ sign).
System:-
For all intents and purposes, replying with a value
other than UNIX would not be very useful.
Listen on Port:
Should usually be 113.
If you have identd enabled but there is no reply to
an identd request by a server, then do a /whois on
yourself.
Nick is
~
account@line09.doll.someone.net
If you see
~
on the first line then your ISP does not have proper
identing. If proper identing is very important for
you, ask your ISP to set one, or change your ISP.
Firewall Tab
The main purpose of this option is most likely to allow
someone to access IRC through a
SOCKS
server at work, or more rarely through a network set
up at home. The majority of home users should keep
this option turned off.
Hostname
is the machine name of your SOCKS server and can be
either a named address or an IP address.
User ID
can be your account or user name on your system. For
most people this will be the User ID portion of their
email address (the text before the @ sign).
Password
is the password required to access the firewall.
Port
should usually be 1080.
NOTE
:- Only connecting to an IRC server is supported. DCC
Send/Chat, etc. are not supported.
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