Hi Sam,
gues how surprised I was ... I didn't really expect it to work with a
different ISP, this was just a shot in the dark.
All I did was enter the different phone no. and user/password
combination (using the arachne ppp setup: I didn't even manually
touch arachne.cfg or other cfg files), and it worked - with both my
previous installation and the current one.
The only explanation i can think of is that the previously used
ISP is MSN ... that might explain any microsoftish quirkyness :-)
Although, I can't imagine how they should be able to find out whether
I'm launching Arachne from C: or G:
Launching Arachne from G: and using MSN, while passing login
information to the RAS server, the modem repeatedly indicates SD
followed by RD. After several unsuccessful attempts to authenticate,
arachne hangs up.
Memory is not an issue:
offline online
DOS (KB) 117[+] 83[?]
Used XMS (KB) 3905 4573
Free xSwap (KB) 1902 1765
Used xSwap (KB) 159 298
Disk Space (MB) 10 9
The ramdrive is 16 mb, i suppose this should be enough ...
under dos, there's physically 64 mb available (didn't feel the need
to install a driver to enable dos to use all 384 mb *g*).
Trying to connect to MSN with my current installation, it's just
the same - works from c: but not from g:, and any other ISP works
fine with either hard disk or ramdrive.
But nevermind - with Arachne, I don't necessarily have to dial in
with MSN (I suppose you consider this a heresy anyway *g*). I'll be
happy as long as there are other call-by-call ISPs I can use.
Greetings,
Thomas
On Sat, 06 Oct 2001 18:20:44 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
>Hello Thomas:
>
>On Sat, 06 Oct 2001 22:27:22 +0200, Thomas Emhardt wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
>I am most surprised that using a different ISP would have solved
>the problem. You probably did something else other than just
>changing your ISP. When you tried connecting with the previous
>ISP I would have suspected that you might have forgotten to see to
>it that your PATH.CFG or your WATTCP.CFG file or whatever config
>file is produced for you as a result of establishing your TCP/IP
>connection failed to be found in the path specified by your
>ARACHNE.CFG. However you dial up and connect it is very important
>that the resulting config file be found by Arachne. See your
>ARACHNE.CFG to find out where she is supposed to find it. Make
>changes as appropriate and necessary. IMHO, you probably
>unknowingly entered some appropriate changes when you set her up to
>connect with a different ISP. You should check this out.
>
>If you can run Arachne from a hard drive, I can't think of any
>reason why you should have a problem running her from a ramdrive
>with the same ISP, assuming of course that your ramdrive is big
>enough and you have sufficient conventional DOS memory. If you
>are having difficulties, then a bug will be found somewhere in
>your setup and configuration files. The difficulty cannot be
>attributed to some alleged quirkiness of the ISP.
>
>All the best,
>
>Sam Heywood
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