Cannot Use Both Dial-Up Networking and Direct Cable Connection

• Microsoft Windows 95

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 : dun win95
Version : 95
Platform : WINDOWS
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