ICS Cannot Autodial 3rd-Party Internet Dial-Up Connections

ID: Q229978

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Windows versions 95, 98, 98 Second Edition

SUMMARY

Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) cannot autodial 3rd-party Internet dial-up connections.

MORE INFORMATION

If your Internet Service Provider (ISP) uses a 3rd-party Internet dial-up connection such as America Online (AOL), you must establish the connection manually before you can share the connection with the clients.

For a client to gain access to the Internet using an AOL connection and an ICS host, you must establish the AOL connection manually on the ICS host, and then connect the clients to the Internet.

For additional information about using AOL and an ICS server, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q230233 How to Use AOL with Internet Connection Sharing

NOTE: The Autodial feature in ICS uses the Dial-Up Networking components shipped with Windows 98 Second Edition.

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Additional query words:

Keywords : kb3rdparty kbnetwork dun win95 win98 kbfaq win98se
Version : WINDOWS:95,98,98 Second Edition
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbinfo