On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Chris Morton wrote:
> When I telnet from my Win98 machine (which has a modem) to the Linux
> server, the 98 machine wants to dial my ISP to reach it via the
> internet. If I cancel the dialout, the telnet session proceeds normally
> over my LAN.
As people have said, this really is a Win9x "feature". Information
about every application is stored in the Registry. Telnet "remembers"
addresses for you and it also "remembers" what resources you were using -
namely dialup adapter. This means that if you fire up telnet, the
registry tells your sytem to access the dialup adapter, so you get the
connection dialog box pop open. The only way I've found to remove this
is to EDIT THE REGISTRY with regedit. This forum is not the place for
such a vile discussion ;-). If you really want to proceed, send me private
email and I'll see if I can help.
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