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Win98 dial-up networking question

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by chad dykstra

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Win98 dial-up networking question
One of my users has a Windows 98 SE box w/ a 56k internal modem and no network card. We are trying to get this box to dial in to our network to be able to access mapped drives, internet, exchange, etc. etc. The modem works fine and connects, I can ping our servers from the workstation. Our network is behind a MS Proxy server. I'm using Oulook2k/IE 5.5. The proxy client is installed and configured properly on the box as well...for a short period of time I was able to connect with the PC if I did not log the user in to Windows. As soon as I logged the computer in, it would just time out in IE/Outlook and no connection would be made. I can map network drives and browse the network fine - just no internet/exchange. Any ideas what would cause this?

Thanks,

Chad Dykstra

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by mphoffar

I would try to first ping and tracert the mail server and see where you get from there. You may want to add a entry in the suffix search order in your dsn settings. If needed, maybe a entry in the hosts file to see the server. Last thing would beto maybe put an exception for the mail server name in the exceptions for the proxy settings.

Good luck to you

Mark

by chad dykstra

Mark,

Figured out my problem - needed to set up proxy settings differently because it didn't have a NIC. Thanks for your suggestions.

Chad

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