Subj : drive mapping problems To : David Bowerman From : Leonard Erickson Date : Tue Jul 25 2000 06:17 pm -=> Quoting David Bowerman to Leonard Erickson <=- DB> Leonard Erickson wrote in a message to Darren Gibbs: LE> I've got it. But the problem isn't the network client, it's the LE> Internet browsers. The programmers for them never seem to have LE> considered the case of a system that's on a LAN, wants to be on the LE> LAN while connected to the Internet, and connects to the Internet LE> via a dial-up connection using a modem attached to the machine, not LE> somewhere out on the network. DB> Are you using IP or IPX as the LAN network protocol? IPX, I haven't yet upgraded the server to be *able* to run IP. DB> If IPX, have you DB> ensured that IP is not bound to the LAN card? That is in Network DB> Neigbourhood's properties, IPX and IPX/SPX are bound to the LAN card DB> while IP is bound to the DialUp adapter. I'll check that on the Win95 system. On OS/2 it's a bit different... DB> For IE, you can check the Connections section of it's properties page. DB> There's a setting called "always dial my default connection" absolutely sure about the name> and since I'm now on a OS/2 box, kinda DB> hard to check without running up to the kids' rooms. Well, I'd rather use Netscape. --- FMailX 1.48b * Origin: Shadowshack (1:105/51) .