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by danss2

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Have anybody run into this kind of problem:
3 PCs w/WinXP Home each, P-to-P network, IPs - in auto, each PC has it's own dialup. Before the network each one of those PCs could connect to and send/receive e-mails from one of the web servers(not their ISP), but now neither one can send through the non-ISP server - only receive. While can do both to/from their ISPs e-mail server. Am I missing anything?
And the other thing in the same configuration: dialup on each PC would come on on its own without anybody's input for it. Can correct tis by disabling Universal PnP service, but in this case - no dialup at all. And some more stuff disappeared. So, that didn't work good... Could anybody help please??

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by bobby

I need a bit more info here. First the plug and play service should be disabled. It is a way for hackers to access your system. This was released by Microsoft some time ago. It was ment to be used with devices like blue tooth (just and example) or something like that.

Next if you unplug all the pc's from the network will they comunicate again?

Are you saying your are trying to get email from like hotmail or msn.com or some other web email?

Can these pc's still surf the web with no problems or is it only email based problem.

Do you have three accounts with your isp? or are
you doing a proxy type network. You said all machines were networked and have there own dialup service.

In the later case I would cancel all but one thengo get apache or some other web proxy and network it that way. You can even set up outside mail accounts through them. From what I am understanding you only use web email so that will not be a problem.

If you can give me a little more infomation about how your network is setup and what you want to do with it I may be able to help more..

Thanks

by danss2

Thanks a lot! At least somebody could help a little... :-)
Well, it not a web based e-mail - it's through their domain. Each PC has it's own dail-up service setup for the same ISP using same phone #,(so it is only one ISP account, and they can goonline one at a time). And yes, they don't have any trouble accessing Internet and browsing.
They can access any of theirs e-mails from their home PCs with no problem, and they didn't have any problem BEFORE networking those PCs.... .

I REALLY appreciate your reply!! Thanks!

by bobby

I just reread your message. It may be that your isp stopped using mail forward. This will not allow you to use not isp email services. Most of them dont anymore because people were able to telnet into the mail server and mail or hack from there. This may be the case here.

by danss2

Thank you for your reply!
But I don't get what do you mean?
They do have e-mail account through their ISP, with which they don't have ANY troubles - in or out. The only broblematic one is the non-isp e-mail account - through their domain, which is different...

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