Cannot Use Both Dial-Up Networking and Direct Cable Connection
Article ID: 140208
Article Last Modified on 11/15/2006
APPLIES TO
This article was previously published under Q140208
SYMPTOMS
You may experience either of the following symptoms:
- When you try to connect to a server or provider using Dial-Up
Networking, you may receive the following error message:
Another Dial-Up Networking connection is active.
Disconnect the other connection, and then try again.
- When you try to establish a connection using Direct Cable
Connection, you may receive the following error message:
Cannot connect to host computer. Make sure you have run Direct
Cable Connection on the host computer and you have connected
your cable to both computers.
CAUSE
Both Dial-Up Networking and Direct Cable Connection use the same network
interface (Pppmac.vxd). You cannot have more than one instance of
Pppmac.vxd running at one time.
RESOLUTION
Close Dial-Up Networking to run Direct Cable Connection, or close Direct
Cable Connection to run Dial-Up Networking. You cannot run both at the
same time.
Additional query words: dcc
Keywords: kbdialup KB140208