Re: Re: [Nolug] Connecting to AT&T Worldnet

Yes, there could be. It gets through verifying uname and pword ok, then fails. I'm not exactly sure what authentication is. How would it differ between AT&T and BS?
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From: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
Date: 2002/05/29 Wed PM 07:34:58 EDT
To: NOLUG ML <nolug@patientcarerx.com>
Subject: Re: [Nolug] Connecting to AT&T Worldnet

On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 16:06, jdtiede@bellsouth.net wrote:
> Am trying to get the computer of my friend from Pass Christian, MS to connect to his AT&T account. I have it here in NO and am using 324-1310 to dial in. He just had to have a new hard disc and was using only WordPad as software, so what an opporunity to migrate!
> I installed RH 7.2 and had no trouble connecting with my BellSouth account. But AT&T keeps giving me the same message: "login failed, reason =(-190, diltx45ev,1022xxxxxx-000," etc. and "Connection closed by foreign host."
> AT&T's personnel over chathelp.att.net have ranged from apologetic to downright rude. They referred me to a web page devoted to Linux connections, which didn't help. When I logged in to chathelp again is when I got the rude person.
> There must be some simple difference between AT&T and BellSouth setup. I was also getting BellSouth but not AT&T on my Linux box (newly upgraded to 7.2), but it drops off to at preset. I am writing on my HP notebook connected thru BellSouth's ADSL. Getting my Linux box to connect here is my next project.
> I'm supposed to go to Pass Christian on Friday and take my friend's computer back to him. He's putting on a family reunion on 6/8-9 and needs his e-mail!

Could there be a problem with authentication?

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