Hi Sam, thanks for your hints, I've now re-set up Arachne on Ramdisk, but the problem remained: Arachne still failed with user/password verification, while dial-in succeeded when launching Arachne from hard disk.
Using a different ISP solved the problem - the connection is established, no matter from where Arachne is launched. BTW, I didn't forget to leave certain stuff on the hard disk; mail, download etc are in a directory outside \arachne. Thanks a lot Thomas On Sat, 06 Oct 2001 14:16:01 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: > Hi Thomas: > On Sat, 06 Oct 2001 19:27:07 +0200, Thomas Emhardt wrote: >> Dear Arachne Fans, >> maybe someone can help me with this: >> I've successfully installed and configured Arachne, and I have also >> managed to run it from a Ramdrive. Except of the fact that PPP >> dial-in fails (I suppose during the user/password verification >> process) while the hard disk version works fine. Which is strange, >> because the content of the Ramdrive is an exact copy of the Arachne >> directory on my hard disk. >> Here's what i do in autoexec.bat: >> c:\tools\ramdisk\xmsdsk 16384 g: /y >> md g:\arachne >> xcopy c:\arachne g:\arachne\ /s >> md g:\temp >> SET TEMP=g:\temp >> g: >> cd \arachne >> arachne >> Am I missing something? > Yes, you certainly are. > You most likely will not want to use this command: > xcopy c:\arachne g:\arachne\ /s > If you want to copy the entire directory "c:\arachne" to g:\arachne, > and to include also all subdirectories as well, then try this: > xcopy c:\arachne *.* g:\ /s > You probably don't want to do that. You will likely want your > mail directory and subdirectories thereof, and also your hotlist > and address book and some other stuff to remain on your hard drive. > Whatever you do, you will have to change your ARACHNE.CFG on your > ramdrive so as to indicate the right directories for the > ramdrive setup. My advice is to set up everything on your ramdrive > the way you want it and then PKZIP everything on the ramdrive by > using the "-p" and the "-r" options. Then copy the resulting ZIP > file to "C:\ARACHNE". Suppose you have your ZIP file named as > "ARACHNE.ZIP". Then in your batch file for extracting the ZIP > file to your ramdrive you should have a line that looks like this: > pkunzip -d arachne.zip g:\ > Good luck! > Sam Heywood > -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/ -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
