using 2 different connections simultaneously

[mace54]

Using IE 6 on a Win2k machine. It is setup to automatically detect setings from our local area network and works fine. The problem is that this machine needs to stay dialed into another network all day. I have a dial up configuration setup and whenever it is dialed into this other network and tries to open up IE, it won't detect the settings from our local network. It appears as if its trying to use the dial up settings to connect to the internet. It ends up timing out. Is there some way, when this computer is dialed out, to tell it to use the local network settings to open the internet browser?

 

[mudskipper]

Depending on what you are doing on the dail up network, yeah sorta....

Okay....let's try this--
-Go into Network and Dail up Connections
-Make sure that you are not dialed up to the DUN session, then right click it and select Properties
-Click the Networking tab
-Highlight TCP/IP and click Properties
-Click Advanced
-On the General tab, uncheck "use default gateway on remote network".

Now dial up and then try IE again. IE should work now. Of course, being that I don't know what you are doing across that DUN session, I can't promise that IT will still work. If you just upload/download files across it, then you should be fine.....


Does this do the trick?

Mudskipper
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Quick! Run out and find me a four year-old child: I can't make heads nor tails out of this!"

 

[mace54]

thanks mudskipper, that worked. one other question. would you know how to do this on a machine that has the same dilema but is running NT? on the NT machine i don't see an option to get into the properties of the dial up connection like there is on 2K. thanks

 

[mudskipper]

Sorry, no--not off of the top of my head. Haven't been using NT for a while now, and it all gets kind of hazy!! LOL

You might go ahead and post in the NT Workstation forum (forum621). Just ask your question rather briefly and then point them to this thread, by copying thread608-539183 into your message (just copy and paste the text).

Glad that this worked for you. I had the same issue on one system here, and about beat my head up against the wall before I found that!

Mudskipper
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Groucho said it best- "A four year-old child could understand this!
Quick! Run out and find me a four year-old child: I can't make heads nor tails out of this!"