From: "Geo." 

"Gregg N"  wrote in message
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> Could someone explain what is likely happening, or at least suggest an
> approach to diagnose this?

I can suggest a possible solution, in NT4 there was an MSloopback adaptor
so you could setup networking without actually having a network card, that
might work if XP includes the loopback adaptor choice in network adaptors.

Geo.

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