Prakash,

Go to View in your explorer, Internet options, Connection.

Set connection to "Contect to the internet using a local area network"

this will solve the dial-up problem

Willie

>Working with stand alone machine.
>Installed from Visual studio 6 CDs.
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>When i try to run Visual Interdev samples, no 'Server' is shown in combo box.
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>I have renamed hosts.sam file to hosts and added one line as follows :
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>127.0.0.1 my_computer_name
>( had to install Microsoft client..) to get the 'Identification' tab in the 'Networking' .
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>Have also modified tcp/ip properties to 1.2.3.4 and set subnet as specified in 'Installing...' in PWS help.
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>Whenever i try to access the web, it goes to 'Dial-up' form. Can anybody help ?
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