ID: Q190406
The information in this article applies to:
If you try to set up a Presentation Conference, the conference might fail without any error messages. The audience members' computers may connect and the presentation may start, but the presenter computer shows this message:
Connecting to audience machine(s). This may take a moment...
The only option is to click Cancel and stop the conference.
This behavior may occur if any of the following conditions is true:
Presentation Conference in PowerPoint 97 does function on a Novell Network running Netware IP.
If the computer name is longer than fifteen characters or contains any special characters or symbols, rename it so that it has fifteen or fewer characters and does not contain any spaces or capital letters.
If an audience member's computer is low on disk space, either free up some disk space on that computer, or do not include that computer in the conference.
To regain connection to some or all computers in the conference, you may have to reboot the presenter's computer as well.
For additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
ARTICLE-ID: Q189699
TITLE : PPT: Presentation Conference Fails with Errors
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.
Additional query words: 8.00 ppt97 failure communicate netdde nt ethernet internet 3.12 3.11 3.22 4.0 4.1 vlm netx client ip 2.1 odi drivers 3.51 wsock32 dll caps
Keywords : kbnetwork kbualink97 kbconf kbbuglist
Version : WINDOWS:97
Platform : WINDOWS
Hardware : x86
Issue type : kbbug
Solution Type : kbnofix
Last Reviewed: November 22, 1998