I noticed another thread called norman360 which contains what I believe to be the answer to my problem. I think the culprit for the spontaneous dial-ups when I was using a dial-up ISP was the "windows update" feature of XP.
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Blister, unchecking the "establish a dial-up connection..." setting is what prompted the original question because it doesn't work. Even though all obvious switches were in their "off" position, I would still get spontaneous dial-up activity. I'm now off of the dial-up...
orb1tals,
I have the firewall from the XP Home edition already turned on. [sadeyes] Is there some setting that you can help me with to turn on this additional feature or were you talking about a firewall product from some other vendor?
NigelR,
I have not been able to get to the bottom of the un-wanted dial-ups. It is a shame that no-one seems to have a tool to identify which application prompted a dial-up session. I'm fairly certain that the problem is coming from my XP machine and not the other two machines on the local...
The internet connection is not active at the time that the dial-up occurs.
Yes, I outlook configured on the XP so that it comes up in the off-line mode first and I have to manually request a send/receive in order to initiate a dial-up. The other machines are used for IE only (no mail) and the...
The local network is broadband. The XP computer is the one that has the dial-up connection. The others access the dial-up via the network, thus going through the XP.
I hope that is clearer, if not, I'll try again.
I have a connection to the Internet via a XP machine and a small local network which has two other W98SE machines on it. I have Internet Connection Sharing running. I have "never dial-up a connection automatically" (or something like that) setup on the HOST which has the modem...
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