[Original inquiry is posted at the end of this email.]
I had a similar problem recently with a POTS connection through my POTS
("plain old telephone service") modem on a MacBook Pro to an Earthlink
Dialup. Here are some things to look for, which will require your obtaining
information from the host (CompuServe, I think you said).
1) In the old Mac days, back in System 7, most of our connections to the
Internet were through a modem connected to a telephone line. Before the Mac
handled the connections automatically in the Remote Access Control Panel, we
used dialup scripts, such as PPP dialup scripts, plus another software for
"the dialer." I think I used a program called FreePPP or ConfigPPP to
handle the dialup, and had to write a script, which was executed by FreePPP.
The Mac OS's Remote Access Control Panel eventually handled the connection.
For a while, we had to tell the Mac OS to use that script. Then the OS had
scripts built-in. Later, it "just worked."
See here for Remote Access setup:
<https://www4.uwm.edu/uits/help/docs/dialup/m_os9_ppp.cfm?printformat=TRUE>
See here for OLD CompuServe settings:
<http://www.compuserve.com/byoa/csmac.htm>
<http://db.tidbits.com/article/1516>
2) Recently I had to connect to Earthlink by POTS dialup, using my MacBook
Pro with OS 10.4.11 and Apple's USB modem. I had not use that connection
for over six months. I had the last working configuration stored in OS
10.4.11. Although the Mac's "dialup connection window" (whatever it is
really called) showed that the modem reach Earthlink, "authentication
failed."
In the old days, Earthlink had required a sign-on in the format:
username
Then,
username/ELN
Then,
ELN/username
Then,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Then,
username
...So you will need to contact CompuServe (if they still exist, which seems
doubtful) and see what they require for the dial-in authentication. Your
problem might be as simple as needing to reconfigure the way you present the
Username at authentication.
In the meantime, it seems that you could get your CompuServe email through a
webmail connection here:
<http://webcenters.netscape.compuserve.com/menu/default.jsp>
You might also post a query at the Claris Emailer mailing list. (Yes, there
are some folks who are still using Claris Emailer -- the early ancestor of
Microsoft Entourage -- in both OS 9 and OS X.)
emailer list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
There is one fellow there who is a guru of all this stuff. He might be able
to help you debug this. I am sending him a BC of this email. If you can't
get through on the Claris Emailer list, send me your query, and I'll forward
to him.
Hope this helps.
Roger.
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Stephen Duxbury - Prestset <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 11/28/08 7:05
PM:
> My elderly neighbour has been using an old black Performa running 8.6 since
> I bought it for her 9/1 years ago! But this week she complained that it no
> longer would connect with CompuServe! As it turned out I think it was her
> credit card that had expired that caused the no connection!! Bt after having
> spent an hour with no luck I decided it was perhaps time for it to be
> pensioned off!!
>
> So I have given her an Emac that has sat at work for 18 months not having
> done anything! I set it all up for her, I cant take it past 10.3.9 as the CD
> drive does not work!, but have run all the other updates and she was quite
> overwhelmed when I took it round for her. She had been using Outlook express
> Mac version and that copied across the identity to Entourage with ease
> (using Office 2004).
>
> Ok so to my questions as I am now getting rusty with these old settings!!
>
> It dials, does the hand shake but fails on authentication??
>
> On the old system it used a 'script' to connect the emails - the tech guy I
> spoke to talked about using a script, but of course he had no Mac knowledge.
> On the PPP options I can see 'script' but its greyed out and cant seem to
> make it available?
>
> I put the email settings into my entourage (10.5.5 and LAN network and it
> doesn't seem to want to connect either - the CompuServe tech guy gave me a
> second level password for the email.
>
> Any thoughts, comments would be much appreciated!
>
> Thanks
> Stephen
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