Re: [aclug-L] PPP Success

[Cheez-Czar <cabrubak@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Take heart, I once spent a month trying to find out why I couldn't connet
to my ISP, and It turned out I had the phone number for my old ISP instaed
of my current one, something so simple that no one thinks of it :)






On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Wayne White wrote:

> My deepest thanks to Steven, Jeremy and John for all of
> the help trying to get me hooked up to SouthWind. It 
> finally happened last night. After an hour on the phone
> with SW tech support I hooked up with John. After a 
> couple of inquires it was determined that the problem
> was with the pap-secrets file. Keep in mind that I have
> looked at that file dozens of times and saw no problems.
> John asked if I had any unusual characters in my 
> password, and the light came on. Since the time that SW
> opened the El Dorado modem pool my password had been
> #1*******, and that had been no problem under Windoze.
> Naturally, a # comments out anything following so pap
> wasn't seeing any password. I guess I confess this for 
> two reasons. First as a sort of self-flagilation for not
> picking up on the comment # in my pass and secondly to
> help point out that many newbies not only have to learn
> Linux but also strugle to unlearn DOS/Windows. I now 
> realize that I will need to constantly question that 
> mindset and that as I grow in the Linux community I will
> need to be mindful that newbies to come will have the 
> same mindset. And, as dumb as my mistake was, it sure 
> feels good to have overcome that particular obstacle.
> Many thanks to all of you who have helped I couldn't
> have done it without you.
> 
> Wayne
> 
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