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by larrys

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I setup Internet sharing on a Win2000 File server. the problem is it keeps dialing out without anyone trying to surf the web or retrieve e-mail. I have the connection set to hang up after 20 minutes of no use and the redial set for 1 minute. The workstations are Win2000. How can I stop this redial, and only dial on demand. Which it the way I have it set up as.

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by joseph moore

Sounds like something is running in the background and issuing commands to go to the Net for something. A service running that needs to get info? Winamp anonymous usage statistics? Real Audio player and their statistics that get reported back to theReal Audio people? Virus software updates? Some spyware perhaps?
Basically, if the connection is being triggered, then something is calling it. I would check all of my connected clients, for the applications/services that are running, and see whatis doing it.

by larrys

I quit using sharing and went to a third party software it works great. Thank you for your help

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