2000/10/05
Dear Listers
Thank you one and all for the suggestions. So far nothing has worked. I will
attempt a composite reply.
Clarence Verge wrote:
>Does your Arachne.cfg have a number in BOTH positions for
>Nameserver ?
>
YES
Roger Turk wrote:
>Probably the first thing to do is to post your ARACHNE.CFG file.
>Be sure to xxx out your password wherever it appears in the file.
>
APPENDED TO THE END OF THIS MESSAGE
>Next, try to describe the what happens up to the point that you
>get "PPP not found."
>
Arachne Dials the ISP who responds login: I reply Pvalliant. ISP
responds password: I enter it. ISP responds with a bunch of wierd
characters: I press F7. A get a message to the effect that
Arachne is leaving miniterm and attempting PPP. After a long
pause I get the PPP not found message.
The P in Pvalliant is required by the ISP to indicate a PPP
connection. If I leave it off ISP responds with the normal
terminal menus etc.
>But first, try to do this: Go to the directory where Arachne is
>located and at the command prompt, type, "Arachne -u" (without
>the quotes, of course). It may appear not to do anything, but I
>have found that it does *something.* Then try to connect again
>with Arachne.
>
I get a message " termin: no packet driver at that address File
not found"
No difference in connecting
>When I first started using Arachne, I had the same problem. I
>then changed to auto logon, and everything worked perfectly. If
>you are in terminal mode and manually entering the responses to
>the prompts, try completing your script for auto logon.
>Remember, the prompts in the "WaitFor#" are case sensitive. Make
>sure all the hyphens are removed from all "WaitFor#," "Response#"
>lines.
I ran into a problem trying this: I tried modifing the default
script by changing name: to login: This worked up to the third
waitfor ">".
What happened was login: was received and my ID was supplied;
password: was received and my password supplied. Then the message
"waiting for >" and the ISP responded a lot of gibberish and hung
up "NO CARRIER" after which Arachne locked up. It would not
respond to keystrokes CRTL C or CRTL BREAK. I had to reboot.
I have no idea what to substitute for >. Any advice?
Niel Smith wrote:
>If the login proceeds OK then fails, there's one thing I found
>that would cause this problem reproducibly - Arachne needs to know
>what 'string' your ISP sends with your dynamic IP address -
>otherwise how would she know which bit of a long login screen to
>extract? And they *do* vary from the standard string....
>A standard 'out of the box' arachne.cfg config file has the lines
>---
[snip]
There is a piece of information I did not mention in my first
message. I do have Arachne 1.60 running on my old computer,
However I never used it because that computer is too slow and has
too little memory to effectively run arachne. However the point
is that 1.60 works on that computer with the default string. I
printed out both arachne.cfg files and compared them line by line
and could not find any substantial differences.
BTW if it is any help, the new computer is an AMD K6 with
apparently the Award chip set and 32 Meg RAM.
Thanks again for the help and hopefully there will be more
suggestions to try.
apologies for such a long message
Herb Valliant [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Arachne.cfg file follows:
;This is ARACHNE.CFG for Arachne version 1.6+
;If you want to use Arachne on PC with CPU 486+ you should start here.
;(tested on AMD K5/133). You should have really fast video card for this.
;This configuration file can be completely controled from Arachne setup.
;Run "setup" if you are not sure what to change in configuration file.
[profile]
Profile FASTPC.ACF
Connection @epppd.exe>>PPP.LOG
Hangup @termin.com 0x60>NUL
;Connection @cmd ... command cmd will estabilish connection
;Connection READY ... connection is permanent, packet driver in AUTOEXEC...
;Connection NUL ... do not start TCP/IP (run "arachne -c" to force this)
[dialer]
DialPage file:ppp_init.htm
Dialer @MINITERM.EXE>PPP.LOG
TerminalWindow @MINITERM.EXE
UseTerminal Yes
Port 3
Irq 4
Base 0x3e8
Mode 8N1
Speed 9600
InitString AT&F1
DialString ATDT
PhoneNumber 6471000
Autologin No
WaitFor1 name:
Response1 \u
WaitFor2 sword:
Response2 \p
WaitFor3 >
Response3 ppp
PPPusername Pvalliant
PPPpassword ******
;Port values: 0=non-standard serial (COM) port, 1-4 standard ports
;Base values: 0x??? (eg. 0x3e8) - Base and Irq are used for "Port 0"
;Mode values: databits/parity/stopbits (eg. 8N1)
[tcp/ip]
IP_Address PPP
IP_Grab IP address set to
NameServer 198.6.201.1
AltNameServer 198.6.201.7
Gateway 0.0.0.0
AltGateway 0.0.0.0
Netmask 0.0.0.0
TCPconfig PPPTCP.CFG
;IP_Address n.n.n.n ... fixed IP address
;IP_Address PPP ... for PPP.EXE and PPPD.EXE (get address from PPP.LOG)
;IP_Address BOOTP ... WatTcp attepmts to use BOOTP protocol
;IP_Address %enviro% ... Minuet style (enviroment variable, like %MYIP%)
;IP_Address WATTCP ... use ONLY values from TCPconfig (variable "my_ip")
;IP_Grab string ... prefix of IP address in PPP.LOG ("IP address set to")
;TCPconfig filename ... name of WatTcp configuration file (often WATTCP.CFG)
[mail]
SMTPserver ccsi.com
POP3server ccsi.com
POP3username valliant
POP3password ******
KeepOnServer No
eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PersonalName H.D. Valliant
Organization Arachne Fan Club
TimeZone +0000
UseSignature Yes
SignatureFile SIGN.TXT
MailEncoding MIME
MailSortOrder DateSnt
NoHELO No
KillSent No
MailIdxTemplate idxhead.htp
ForwardString1 ----- Forwarded message begin -----
ForwardString2 ------ Forwarded message end ------
ReplyString On %s, %s wrote:
MyCharset US-ASCII
MailBodyEncoding 7bit
;MailSortOrder values: DateRcv|DateSnt|Address|Subject
[internet]
HTTPproxy proxy.provider.com:8080
UseProxy No
HomePage http://home.arachne.cz/
SearchPage http://search.arachne.cz/
SearchEngine http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?q=
FTPusername user
FTPpassword xxxxxx
FTPhost ftp.provider.com
FTPpath /home/user/www/index.html
AcceptCharset ISO-8859-1,*
[system]
Hotlist .\HOTLIST.HTM
History .\HISTORY.LST
CookieFile .\COOKIES.LST
CacheIndex .\CACHE.IDX
CachePath CACHE\
Cache2TEMP Yes
MailPath MAIL\
DownloadPath DOWNLOAD\
[misc]
Logo 2000
LoadImages Yes
Frames Yes
JPEGargs -bmp
FILEargs -d
RefreshDelay 5
ScreenSaver 10
ScreenSaverStyle R
ScreenSaverColors 0
ESC Exit
F3key file:*.htm
AutoF3key Yes
BigFont No
ScrollBarSize 14
ScrollBarStyle NextStep
Colors 11 0
MouseColors 15 15
VirtualScreen 5000
ScreenMode Auto
SmoothScroll Yes
ScrollStep 50
BgColor #000000
Text #F0F0F0
Link #00FF00
Background back.gif
ExitOnHangup Yes
ASCIIwidth 78
HTMLtext #000000
HTMLbgColor #C4C4C4
HTMLlink #0000C4
;AfterPOP3 smtp:
;AfterSMTP file:mail.htm
ShiftF1 file://doc/howto.htm
ShiftF2 file://oops\*.*
ShiftF3 file:*.*
ShiftF4 file://examples\newfile.htm
ShiftF5 http://www.yahoo.com/
ShiftF6 http://www.wired.com/
ShiftF7 http://www.altavista.com/
ShiftF8 http://www.hotbot.com/
ShiftF9 http://www.slashdot.org/
ShiftF10 file://readmail.dgi
AltTab No
EditHotlistEntry Yes
Autodial No
UseCID No
UseCDescr No
AltSysFont 0
Index *.htm
FontShift 0
Multitasking Yes
XMS4allGIFs 2048
XMS4oneGIF 1040000
;ScrollBarStyle values: NextStep|Windows|Arachne|X
;BgColor,Text,Link values: #RRGGBB (hexadecimal values of red, green and blue)
;VirtualScreen value: vertical number of pixels, 0 disables virtual screen.
;ScreenMode values: Auto|Smart|Nice
;BodyArachne values: System|Default|All
;Colors values are <ink 0..15> <paper 0..15>
[security]
SavePasswords Yes
Cookies Yes
HTTPreferer Yes
;FakeFTPeMail user@domain
[auto-added]
AlltNameServer 198.6.201.7
