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RE: [ECS] Networking problem Dan Hoehnen Sat, 19 Feb 2000 18:13:40 -0500

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Check these settings...

Go to Control Panel and open Internet Options and go to the Connections tab.
Play with the settings called:

Never dial a connection
Dial whenever a network connection is not present
Always dial the default connection

Dan

> Hello everyone,
>
> I hope someone can help here with this general networking question:
>
> I have a LAN with 3 computers on it, each with TCP/IP Ethernet
> Adapters.  I
> edit the hosts file to obtain name resolution.  All works fine.
> I can ping
> all computers with computer name or IP address.
>
> Then I install dialup-networking on one of the machines that has a modem.
> All of a sudden the machine with the dialup networking wants to dialup my
> ISP to find a local machine.  If I try to ping a local machine,
> I get a pop
> up box asking if I want to connect to my ISP.  The strange thing is, if I
> select cancel on this box, the ping goes through to the local machine-but
> only after I hit "cancel".  Why does the computer think it needs
> to contact
> the ISP?
>
> As you can imagine this is preventing me from coming online with the ECS
> server.
>
> Any help at all would be really great.  Thanks.
>
> Kevin
>
>

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