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- Microsoft Connection Manager Readme File
- August, 1997
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- (C) Copyright Microsoft Corporation, 1995-1997
-
- This document contains important, late-breaking information about this
- product.
-
- You can view the Readme file in Windows Notepad. To print the
- Readme file, open it in Notepad or another word processor, and then use
- the Print command on the File menu.
-
- Before installing this product, please review this entire document. The
- document contains critical information to ensure proper installation
- and use of the product.
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- Known Issues with Microsoft Connection Manager
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- * In Windows NT, the "Disconnect if idle for more than" setting
- may not work properly.
-
- * Connection Manager requires certain files that are supplied by
- Internet Explorer 3.0 or later. If you remove Internet Explorer,
- Connection Manager will no longer work.
-
- * Do not install two copies of Microsoft Connection Manager in
- two different folders on the same computer. This will cause the
- original service profiles to become disassociated with Connection
- Manager. To prevent this, install both versions into the same folder.
-
- * In Windows 95, if you try to establish a Dial-Up Networking
- connection with your ISP, you might see an error message in the
- Microsoft Connection Manager dialog box stating that you need to
- type a phone number. If this happens, click Settings. When the
- Location Information dialog box appears, follow the instructions,
- and then click OK.
-
- * In Windows NT, if you try to establish more than one connection,
- you might see the message, "The modem is not configured properly. "
- This sometimes happens if you try to dial too quickly, or if you start
- Microsoft Connection Manager when a connection has already been
- established using Dial-Up Networking. Disregard the message.
- Use one connection at a time.
-
- * In Windows NT, you might have problems with Remote Access
- Services (RAS), which is automatically installed by the
- Connection Manager service profile. Make sure RAS is
- configured to use a manual startup type,
- and that you have privileges to start RAS.
- To do this,
- 1. Click Start, point to Settings, click Control Panel,
- and then double-click Services.
- 2. In the Services list, double-click Remote Access Service.
- 3. In the Service dialog box, click Manual, and then click OK.
-
- * In Windows NT, if you change the Disconnect if idle for more
- than setting, the change you made will not take effect until
- you quit Microsoft Connection Manager and then restart it.
-
- * If you type or edit the phone number in the Dialing tab of
- the Connection Settings dialog box, make sure you use the
- proper form for the phone number. If you do not, the
- Connection Manager will not use the Dialing Properties
- that you have set up when dialing the telephone number.
-
- The proper form is as follows:
-
- +[country code] (area code) phone number
-
- For example, if your country code is 1, your area code is 800,
- and your phone number is 555-1212, you should type the phone
- number as follows, making sure to include the "+" sign, spaces, and
- parentheses:
-
- +1 (800) 5551212
-
- If you do not use this form, make sure you enter the
- number exactly as it is to be dialed.
-
- * If you are using Microsoft Dial-Up Networking 1.2, and the
- following message appears, disregard it:
- This DHCP client was unable to obtain an IP network
- address from a DHCP server. Do you want to see future
- DHCP messages?
-
- * Microsoft Connection Manager does not work on Windows NT 4.0
- with some internal ISDN network adapters, including the
- Diamond Supra NetCommander ISDN Modem.
-
- * Connection Manager supports using single-channel ISDN. You can
- manually configure Connection Manager to to use dual-channel ISDN.
-
- If you are running Windows 95, use the following steps to set up
- dual-channel ISDN:
- 1. Click Start, then point to Programs, then point to Accessories,
- and then click Dial-Up Networking.
- 2. Right-click the connection icon for your ISP and then click
- Properties.
- 3. Click the Multilink tab.
- 4. Click Use additional devices, and then click Add.
- 5. In the Edit Extra Device dialog box, select the device for
- your extra ISDN channel, and then type the phone number for
- that device.
-
- If you want to use dual-channel for your backup connection icon,
- repeat the above steps for your backup connection icon.
-
- Once you have used this technique to set up a dual-channel connection
- icon for use with Connection Manager, if you change either your primary
- or backup phone number, you will also have to edit the multilink phone
- number that you entered in step 5.
-
- If you are running Windows NT, see your Windows NT documentation for
- information on setting up dual-channel ISDN connections.
-
- * Connection Manager will automatically install the TCP-IP protocol,
- but no other protocols. If you use a service profile that requires
- a protocol other than TCP-IP, make sure you install it before attempting
- to connect to your ISP. To do this:
- 1. Click Start, point to Settings, click Control Panel,
- and then double-click Network.
- 2. Click the Services tab, then click Remote Access Service, and then
- click Properties.
- 3. Click the modem or VPN adapter, and then click Network.
- 4. In the Dial out Protocol list, click the protocol that your
- service profile uses.
-
- * If you are running Windows NT and using Connection Manager to
- establish a Dial-up Networking connection, Connection Manager does
- not support popping up a terminal window after dialing. (Bringing up
- a terminal window before dialing, however, is supported.) If your ISP requires
- that your connection causes a terminal window to pop up after you connect,
- contact your ISP and ask for a dial-up script that will bring up the terminal
- window.
-
- * If you are running Windows NT and using a Connection Manager service profile
- that requires Dial Up Scripting, you must install Windows NT Service Pack 3.
-
- * Windows 95 users may see problems in Connection Manager displays,
- resulting from the installation of a service profile that uses a
- different language than the one configured for use by the operating
- system.
-
- * Numbers typed in a double-byte character set (DBCS) are not accepted.
- To type numbers on a DBCS version of Windows 95 or Windows NT,
- use an Input Method Editor (IME) set up to produce single-byte
- character set (SBCS) numbers.
-
- Examples of DBCS versions include, but are not limited to, Japanese
- and Hangeul.
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