224713 - when starting up will not connect to standard internet connection

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 250869

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Lars Holte Nielsen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007

When Mozilla starts up I get a dialog box about connection to an old dial-up
connection instead of my adsl connection which is defined as standard in
windows. If I delete the old dial-up connection Mozilla gives an error message
when start up that dial-up cannot be preformed.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start up Mozilla without being connected to internet
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Mozilla suggest dailing up to old non-standard connection.

Expected Results:  
Have dailed to connection defined as standard in Windows.

Comment 1

[Bogdan Stroe]

Isn't your ADSL connection always on?
Maybe a duplicate of bug 169841?

Comment 2

[Robert Dibley]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Isn't your ADSL connection always on?
> Maybe a duplicate of bug 169841?

well *my* ADSL connection sure isn't always on, and I get the exact same bug.
My adsl account is my default, but I never deleted my old dial-up account as I
wanted a fall-back.  Now Mozilla always tries to use the old acount if I'm not
already connected, but if I start Outlook Express first it connects correctly to
my adsl account, and then Mozilla is quite happy to work with that.
This is from a completely fresh install of the latest nightly build.

Comment 3

[Robert Dibley]

Just out of interest I tried using regmon to identify why Mozilla accessed a
different "default" to IE and OE.  The difference is in the key location ...
Mozilla accesses HKCU (HKEY_CURRENT_USER) while IE and OE acess HKLM
(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE) ...  everything else is the same, but I can only assume
that for some odd reason my old dialup account was installed as one and my new
(adsl) as the other, without checking that there might be a different default
already.

Anyway, changing the current user value to match the local machine value for
this key entry :
\Software\Microsoft\RAS AutoDial\Default\DefaultInternet

solves my basic problem - I now get the correct connection requested when I
haven't opened anything beforehand.  Now if only it would autodial with no
dialogue :-)

Comment 4

[Robert Dibley]

See also bug #250869

Comment 5

[Robin Monks]

Looks like bug 250869 to me.  Reporter, if you feels this was done in error
please REOPEN.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 250869 ***