Re: UK Freeserve Connection
On 22 Dec 1999, John Hasler wrote:
> Godric writes:
> > try enclosing your ISP username in single quotes as it contains dots.
>
> chat has no problem with dots. In any case Anthony is not the one with the
> problem: he is giving an example of a working freeserve connection.
>
> Looking at Anthony's files I am led to guess that Freeserve is one of those
> providers that require different usernames and/or passwords for
> authenticating a ppp connection than for email and such. It may be that
> the guy with the problem (I'm sorry, but I've forgotten your name) is
> giving something like 'qwerty' for his username when it should be
> 'qwerty.freeserve.co.uk'.
>
> Perhaps I need to add some text about this to pppconfig.
> --
> John Hasler
As various correspondents have already pointed out, my script does in
fact work perfectly for Freeserve, which was why I posted it. I
generated it automatically with the pppconfig script so can't claim any
particular credit for it.
Freeserve uses the same username and password for everything, including
fetchmail and uploading files to the website. It is correct to say that
you have to use the whole username, in my case
"pentelikon.freeserve.co.uk".
Anthony
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Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.1 (Windows-free zone)
Book Reviews: http://www.pentelikon.freeserve.co.uk/bookreviews/
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