Article ID: 321644 - Last Review: June 20, 2002 - Revision: 1.3

Internet Connection Sharing Clients Cannot Connect If Host Is Using an AOL Dial-Up Connection

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SYMPTOMS

If you connect to the Internet by using AOL 7.0, you cannot share the connection by using Internet Connection Sharing (ICS).

Client computers on your home network cannot connect to the Internet on this connection. The computer that is sharing the connection to America Online, however, has no problems connecting to the Internet.

If you try to access the properties of the AOL dial-up connection to view the Internet Connection Sharing properties, no properties are available.

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CAUSE

AOL 7.0 does not support ICS.

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MORE INFORMATION

For information about how to contact America Online, click the appropriate article number in the following list to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

65416 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/65416/EN-US/ ) Hardware and Software Third-Party Vendor Contact List, A-K

60781 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/60781/EN-US/ ) Hardware and Software Third-Party Vendor Contact List, L-P

60782 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/60782/EN-US/ ) Hardware and Software Third-Party Vendor Contact List, Q-Z

For additional information, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

306126 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306126/EN-US/ ) HOW TO: Configure Internet Connection Sharing in Windows XP

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