This sounds very much like the problem I am having with one laptop connected to the 
office LAN. 
This computer is mobile and sometimes connects using a dial up service.  It began 
having problems detecting the NIC and started trying to use dialup. However, I'm 
not sure which device I need to disable. 

As I am a network neophyte, and it only appears that this computer only has one high 
speed network connection, do you have any suggestions what I might do to solve this 
one? It has been suggested to me that I replace the NIC, but the laptop doesn't appear 
to have any problems connecting to the internet. It is only now having problems recognizing 
the work group which it was connected to before. 

I have run the Networking Wizard a number of times, I've tried rebooting the computer 
hoping that would fix it. I know that the firewall on that computer as well as on 
the computers it is to network with has been disabled. I tried updating XP so that 
it has all the latest updates and patches. 

So far, nothing has resolved this and I'm considering reinstalling XP and starting 
from scratch. Any suggestions?
Thanks!
Murleen

        

>     Solution was to disable the 1394 network connection on the machine that would 

>not show up or be accessable.  Once I disable that it never happened again.  All 

>computers on the network where 100% connected and accessable after that.  It happened 

>once again after that because for some unknown reason the 1394 connection and been 

>enabled again.  Once disable problem went away.  Simple fix, days to find the problem.

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