Hello Nigel! On Wednesday, July 09, 2003, 12:41 PM, you wrote, about the "Could not connect to server" messages TB! is giving you:
N> The account server names are correct. I've tried using the DNS addresses rather N> than the server names but it makes no difference. N> I thought the problem might be caused by some of my MSIE connection settings or N> by some of my other applications (NAV 2003, The Proxomitron, or NearSite). But N> I disabled all of these but it makes no difference. N> I've even used the identical account setting on my wife's machine and The Bat! N> works fine (Windows 98) but for some reason, it's a non-starter on mine. Just in case it might help: I think this may be an operating system weakness rather than a TB! weakness. I get this message rather randomly and as often as several times a day, then sometimes only several times a week. My OS is Win XP Home--that's a system kin to Windows 2000, isn't it? It usually happens after I have had the computer and TB! up and running for several hours. Sometimes just hanging up the modem, waiting about a minute, and then re-dialing will fix it. (I have dial-up networking.) Other times I have shut down and rebooted and the problem has gone away for awhile. Sometimes only the e-mail connection gets an error message. At other times I get an error message from my browser (IE 6) that "the page cannot be displayed" as well--discovered this when I tried to read my mail on my ISP website when I couldn't access it through TB!. This has been going on ever since I got XP Home. At first I thought the problem was actually on the server end. And sometimes, that might be the case. But I've had a different server for about a month, and the same error messages occur at random. I am always able to fix the problem, temporarily, so far, by rebooting. I am most curious about why. But I do suspect the modem-messaging code in the OS. I have a feeling that I just have to live with it! -- Best regards, Mary The Bat! 1.61 on Windows XP 5.1 2600 Service Pack 1 ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62r | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
