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

Thanks to Mark Robinson's tip, I finally got AT&T running under RH7.2. The problems (mostly in communication with AT&T) were these:
1. They had given me the network id to try, but not told me what it was or that it had a permanent connection with this account. Ditto the password associated with the nid.
2. They were ignorant of the dialup configuration box, and web page in WURD that they push was written six years it makes no mention of it either, but the nid and its Lewis Carroll-like password have to be entered here, and not the e-mail password.
To sum up the situation, AT&T required ids and pws for logging into the net that are not the same as the e-mail uname and pword. My friend, and I suspect many other AT&T users, have no idea that these exist.
   It all points up the fact that better help can be obtained from advanced users than from help desk people who may only be making minimum wage!
    Thanks again, Mark.
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From: <mrobinso@fpkc.com>
Date: 2002/05/30 Thu PM 04:58:08 EDT
To: nolug@patientcarerx.com;
Subject: Re: Re: [Nolug] Connecting to AT&T Worldnet

The only other thing I can think of is to make sure your friend gave you his network user ID
& password and not his email user ID & password. WorldNet uses one (usually numeric)
user ID and password (usually a random string of 12+ upper & lower case letters, numbers &
symbols - not changeable by the user) to make the connection and another user ID (the
part preceding the @att.net) & password to access email, user setup, etc.

Take a look at the example account.txt file at http://www.wurd.com/eng/help/template.txt
. To connect, you want to use the LoginName and Password parameters.

Thus the "Network id is a non-digit or no @ sign" error message (?).

Mark Robinson

-----Original Message-----
Thanks, I already tried that and it didn't help. I was already able to dial BellSouth, and this
didn't make any difference at all. It IS an authorization problem, but other than telling how to
set up /etc/ppp/chap-secrets, which I have already done, it doesn't go any further. The
last error message I got said (Network id is a non-digit or no @ sign), and I have no idea
what to do about this.
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From: <mrobinso@fpkc.com>
Date: 2002/05/30 Thu AM 11:29:38 EDT
To: nolug@patientcarerx.com;
Subject: Re: [Nolug] Connecting to AT&T Worldnet

You may find some help at the WorldNet User's Reference Desk, specifically at
http://www.wurd.com/eng/setup/dialers/linux.html .

Mark Robinson

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