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What service could be causing my USRobotics ext Courier modem to dial up on it's own? There seems to be no pattern to it. There are no apps running. I am networked from my w2k machine to another 98 machine in my home. I have checked to be sure Outlook Express or any other programs are not asking for service. Any ideas?

Dial up networking will attempt to reconnect any disconnected network drives in '98 and since my client machine is on '98, I believe this was the problem. The fix: on the '98 machine click Start, Settings, Control Panel and double click Properties. Click Client for Microsoft Networks, Properties. Click to select Quick Logon box, click OK and click Close. It might ask for the Win '98 disk. If so insert it. Done....

I found and loaded ZoneAlert. Very nice program. Right away my modem dialed up and ZA caught it. It was from a server trying to send me stuff. I went to the ZA website and the explanation was that sometimes your ISP doesn't disconnect properly and tries to reconnect you. (Sometimes up to two hours later) Since my ISP assigns IP's I will have to find out it if the IP I caught is truly one of theirs.

Nope..I tried it but turning that off will not let the Win98 machine dial out on Internet Sharing through the W2K machine. It almost has to be one of the services on the W2K machine since nothing shows up on the "tasks running" screen on either machine when it happens. It always receives 287 bytes and then sits there till the modem times out (5 minutes)If a mail program or browser was doing it, something should show up from the ISP, either mail or web page.

I could only find "dial on demand" so guess that's it. I'll give it a shot but will have to wait and see as it only does it ever-so-often. Thanks for the info...