chicagofan wrote:
Bill Davidsen wrote:
chicagofan wrote:
Bill Davidsen wrote:
In hopes of someone having a clue where 'elsewhere' might be I put
up the
screenshots. I think it points to an error inside SM2 that this
happens only
on this server which doesn't demand authentication, and one other
similar
(non-public) server which also allows access to small information
without auth.
Eternal-September is working for me on Port 119, but it DOES require
authentication, so on the server settings page for that news account, I
have checked the box to always request authentication.
Are you saying you are using another port for ES which does not require
authentication?
It seems possible that the lack of a demand for auth:
480 authentication required
may somehow confuse SM, although I don't quite see how.
Does this extra information give anyone a clue?
I'm confused why your connections would not require authentication the
same as mine. Maybe if we determine that, we'll stumble on the answer
you need. :)
Yours don't need authentication, either. ES will allow you to connect
and read
the motzarella.* and ES.* groups just fine w/o auth. Auth is needed to
access
other groups on the servers.
That's strange, because these [below] were the instructions I received
by e-mail, after I wrote them about my connection problems after the
changeover from Motzarella. These instructions cleared up my problem:
It will connect with or without auth (but not with invalid auth, clearly). If
you connect and don't offer auth, you can read and post to the subset of groups
mozzarella.*, eternal-september.*, and possenet.* (no idea what that is). If you
get a valid account and offer the credentials you will then see all the
available groups.
You were offering invalid credentials or valid credentials in an invalid way,
resulting in denial. If your passwords were in password manager I think they
would no longer be found when the host name changed, so you would have needed to
(a) check always offer credentials, and (b) put them in by hand.
You can easily validate non-auth operation:
telnet news.eternal-september.org nntp
{200 message}
list
{guest groups list here}
quit
To authenticate, the commands are
authinfo user {account}
authinfp pass {password}
type those before 'list' and you will get the full list.
" I can't sign up for a new account, because it says I have an existing
account."
That was to be expected. You may continue to use your existing
user name and password.
"When I tried just changing my Motzarella address to
eternal-september... nothing happens.
What am I doing wrong about this transition? Thank you...."
Please create a new account/server in your *client*, using the
new server name "news.eternal-september.org" and your existing
user name and password. *Please don't forget to set*:
[X] Always authenticate (wording depends on your newsreader)
As mentioned before, this solved my problems.
bj
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