Re: Authentication failure

My other thought was this: This installation is on a remote machine 
not on Bellsouth's network. Could it be that they only allow 
connections from within their own network?

As I mentioned, I have other news reader apps working, but all those 
machines use Bellsouth as the ISP.


--- In [email protected], "Steve Kaufman" <mustang2pilot@y...> 
wrote:
> Yes, I do need a password as well as a username. I left that part 
> out because it doesn't conatin any special charaters in it like 
the 
> account name does.
> 
> I have other news readers setup & working using this account, so I 
> know that the user:pass is valid.
> 
> I thought that the inclusion of the "@" or "."'s in the account 
name 
> may be causing the authentication failure.
> 
> 
> 
> --- In [email protected], Gerard Lanois <gerardlanois@y...> 
wrote:
> > Put ubh aside for the moment.
> > 
> > Can you telnet into port 119 of the news server?
> > 
> > If so, you can manually speak to the server to determine
> > whether your username and password are valid.
> > 
> > For example, your news server is news.newserver.com,
> > your account is "catherine" and your passord is "wheel".
> > 
> > When you telnet into port 119 of news.newserver.com, your
> > conversation will go like this:
> > 
> > 200 news.newserver.com
> > AUTHINFO USER catherine           <<<<==== You type this
> > 381 more authentication required
> > AUTHINFO PASS wheel               <<<<==== You type this
> > 281 news.newserver.com
> > QUIT                              <<<<==== You type this
> > 
> > 
> > If you can't do this with your server, then your user
> > name and/or password are not valid.
> > 
> > Maybe you need a password in addition to your account name?
> > 
> > -Gerard
> > 
> > 
> > --- Steve Kaufman <mustang2pilot@y...> wrote:
> > > I'm using v2.5 & am receiving a "ERROR: Net::NNTP->authinfo() 
> > > failed: 502 - Authentication Failed" message. My news provider 
> > > (BellSouth) requires that the ACCOUNT = <user>@bellsouth.net. 
> Could 
> > > this be causing the problem?
> > > 
> > > Thx...
> > > 
> > > 
> > >



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