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Re: [ECS] Networking problem Don Stephens Sat, 19 Feb 2000 15:53:00 -0800

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Kevin:
 Try going into Control Panel, Internet, Connections and select the Never
Dial A Connection. It's a kludge, but it will allow you to screw around with
ECS.

Don
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Keast" <libertyc@prodigy.net>
To: "ECS" <ecs-list@netbloc.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2000 12:53 PM
Subject: [ECS] Networking problem


> 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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