I've got 2 PCs networked together and I've been attempting to keep the emails separate.
I set up another account with AT&T Broadband,
and so that end was all set when I started
along on a dissapointing venture.
I got wound up in IDENTITIES and IDENTITY
MANAGEMENT and PASSWORDS.
On one PC I lost my entire email format. OE popped up alright, but it was like the first time one. So I had to go in and create a new account. This one is working, mm, OK. Every now and then, and I don't know why, my old email, with all my addresses and saved stuff appears. But this one doesn't work right and freezes the screen.
The other PC's email has a LOGON flag popping
up. It says to enter a password. The password is already there. Click and it pops right back. Can't access email, send or recieve.
How can you eliminate this LOGON baloney. I just would like to get rid of it. The hell with passwords and usernames.
I hope some of y'all know more about Outlook Express & Windows than I do, and can give me a hand here.
Thanks ahead, everyone...
ONE WRONG CLICK AND THE RANCH HAS BEEN BOUGHT.
Chipper
OutlookExpress "Logon" Problem
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Chip Fossa
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Gene Jones
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Chip, I'm not sure about the newworking problem but here's how I run two computers.
I have cable, so I bought a Router to run two computers off one cable connection, one for me and one for my wife. We use the same e-mail addresses that were assigned when we originally signed up for cable, except now mine is set-up to receive only my e-mail and hers receives only her e-mail. She has to have a pass-word to open my mail, and I have to have a password to open hers.
In effect, we have two stand-alone computers. We e-mail and forward e-mail to each other just as if we were separated by long distance rather than just separate rooms.
I have cable, so I bought a Router to run two computers off one cable connection, one for me and one for my wife. We use the same e-mail addresses that were assigned when we originally signed up for cable, except now mine is set-up to receive only my e-mail and hers receives only her e-mail. She has to have a pass-word to open my mail, and I have to have a password to open hers.
In effect, we have two stand-alone computers. We e-mail and forward e-mail to each other just as if we were separated by long distance rather than just separate rooms.
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Ken Lang
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Words cannot express my distaste for Outlook Express.
Similar to Gene, I use a router from our IP to three computers each of which has a different email account and address and password.
True, you need to remember the passwords, but in these days of numbers where you have to remember you phone #, your bank #, your address, your social security #, Your work #.....etc, it's not that big a deal.
Now let's see, my name is................?
Similar to Gene, I use a router from our IP to three computers each of which has a different email account and address and password.
True, you need to remember the passwords, but in these days of numbers where you have to remember you phone #, your bank #, your address, your social security #, Your work #.....etc, it's not that big a deal.
Now let's see, my name is................?
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Chip Fossa
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Thanks Gene and Ken for your responses.
Since I posted this, I was able to contact
our bass player, who happens to be a PC programmer.
He's hard to reach sometimes, and harder to understand [not his fault - mine], but anyway, the 2nd problem has been remedied
somewhat.
Apparently, with OE and with networking, both PCs have to use the SAME password. So as soon as I re-typed the same password on the secondary PC, BINGO!
The 1st problem, losing all my email data on the primary PC, still has to be resolved.
I'm running OE version 5.0 right now, and it's working. But if I were to load OEv6.0,
all my original settings/data would come back, but when I would try to do anything -
FREEZE-UP.
At least I know all that info is still on the PC somewhere and has not been lost. Just
have to figure how to get it back and working.
Looks like I'll have to bug the bass player again. He solves one problem at a time. But that's about all I can do, too.
Thanks again, fellas.
Chipper
Since I posted this, I was able to contact
our bass player, who happens to be a PC programmer.
He's hard to reach sometimes, and harder to understand [not his fault - mine], but anyway, the 2nd problem has been remedied
somewhat.
Apparently, with OE and with networking, both PCs have to use the SAME password. So as soon as I re-typed the same password on the secondary PC, BINGO!
The 1st problem, losing all my email data on the primary PC, still has to be resolved.
I'm running OE version 5.0 right now, and it's working. But if I were to load OEv6.0,
all my original settings/data would come back, but when I would try to do anything -
FREEZE-UP.
At least I know all that info is still on the PC somewhere and has not been lost. Just
have to figure how to get it back and working.
Looks like I'll have to bug the bass player again. He solves one problem at a time. But that's about all I can do, too.
Thanks again, fellas.
Chipper