Hello all,

Am new to the forum and hope this post meets the requirements.
This post will be rather lengtly but needs to be to explain the problem.

I have two computers running Windows 2000 Pro. I travel for a living and use a terminal emulation program called STEP to connect to our Unix based server at work. We dial in through a modem using serial protocol. I have been using this for several years with no problems.

About a month ago, I discovered that I could no longer connect to the server on either of my machines.

The specifics are as follows: (both machines)
When I call the server, it connects and asks for my login name and then just disconnects me. If I type really fast, it will accept the login name and asks for my password before it disconnects.

The only changes I made to the machines around the time this problem started was the installation of Service Pac 3. I also installed three programs; Drive Image 2002, WebWasher, and Ad-Adware. I have un-installed all of these in one machine but still have the problem. If I use "hyper-terminal" to connect, I get an error message "error 737 loopback detected".

All other dial-up funtions (aol, AT&T, etc ) work fine. I also have another machine running Windows 98 that connects fine using the same emulator. I have been working with Microsoft support on this for about a month as well as posting on several Win 2K forums to no avail.

I know nothing about Unix and our IT people at work have been no help since I am the only person having problems.

Any thoughts, suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

skids (robert@onlysuccess.com)

If you check the dial properties within Windows - I believe you can change the protocol; one of which claims to be good at communicating with UNIX boxes.

Have you tried changing the dial up properties?

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Thanks for the reply.

I have tried changing the dial-up properties. It's an unusual situation as there is no need to set up a connection in "connection manager" to use the emulator. It accesses the modem directly.

Down to the point now that Microsoft is recommending an in-place upgrade or basically a re-load of the operating system.

Leary of this as I don't want to loose all I have in the machine if something goes wrong. Also, if this were to solve the problem, I wouldn't have learned anything.

Thanks again. "skids"