What are Incoming Connections?

[Terry Pinnell]

I thought that Control Panel>Networking Connections just displayed a
list of all my DUN connections. But on my XP Home PC I just noticed
there's an entry called 'Incoming Connections'. And if I look at
Properties>Users I see a surprising list of entries like this:

Basic (Basic)
Guest
HelpAssistant (Remote Desktop Help Assistant Account)
Limited (Limited-Test)
SUPPORT_388945a0 (CN=Microsoft Corporation,
L=Redmond,S=Washington,C=US)
Terry (Terry Pinnell)
Testing (Testing)
etc

I don't have a network, just my dial-up internet connection (soon to
become broadband, if that matters). What's that all about please?

 

[Ken Wickes [MSFT]]

Incoming connections are typically for when you want your computer to answer
incoming modem connections. If you don't know why it is there I would
probably delete it.