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- Path: telepost.no!usenet
- From: tamnes@telepost.no (Stig Tamnes)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: 2 Accounts
- Date: 8 Feb 1996 01:55:02 GMT
- Organization: TelePost Public Access
- Message-ID: <1348.6612T116T1369@telepost.no>
- References: <1246.6609T1259T503@gate.net>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: oslo604.telepost.no
- X-Newsreader: THOR 2.22 (Amiga;TCP/IP)
-
- >>In AmiTCP:bin/ there is a file calles startnet. It decides which device to
- >>use to connect to the internet account, which user to login, host name, IP
- >>address, etc...
-
- >>Hopefully your email addresses are different on the two accounts. That will
- >>make this much easier.
-
- >>Copy startnet to startnet2. Now edit startnet2.
- >> 1) First, change the 0 after ppp.device to 1 - that allows you to make a
- >>different ppp setup.
- >> 2) The name after login will be for your first account. Change it to this
- >> new
- >>account.
- >> 3) Change all the ppp0 occurences to ppp1
- >> 4) On you ADD HOST line, change the full hostname to your new full
- >> hostname.
- >> 5) If you have setenv variables for things like newsservers and such,
- >> change
-
- >Well, I've spent 4 hours trying to get it to work. No go so far.
- >My normal account, that I've had for a long time still works fine.
-
- >I even tried installing into another directory, assigning to that one and
- >configuring it for the new account. On startnet it seems like it get to
- >the startnet line "waitforport AMITCP" and hangs. "Amitcp couldn't be
- >started" then appears. Im using 4.2 and it never gets to the ppp.config
- >section nor writes to the file.
-
- >Any ideas why?
- Add the new setenv variables in ppp0.config;
- ;AmiTCP:bin/startnet2
- C:copy "AmiTCP:db/ppp1.config" to "ram:env/sana2/ppp0.config"
-
- -S.T.
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