shaggy
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 Posted:
Wed Dec 22, 2004 5:53 pm Post subject:
accessing school e-mail from home |
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Hi all. I realize you are very busy at this time of the year, but I hope you
don't mind if I pick your brains for a moment. I recently purchased a new
dell with a windows xp home operating system. My former computer, had a
windows 98 second edition operating system. When I would attempt to access
my school's e-mail account from home (webmail.centennialsd.org) I would get
the pop up box with three separate lines: user name, password, and domain.
There was also the option to check remember password, so I wouldn't have to
enter it each time.
In Windows XP home, there are only two lines, user name and password. I
remembered to enter my domain\username as my username from my school, and my
password was as usual. However there was no check box to remember my
password. There was a drop down arrow by the user name box, but even after I
logged on successfully, the drop down box did not remember my user name or
password. There was a littl grayed out box with three dots in it next to the
drop down arrow, but it never became active. Is this due to a change in
Windows XP versus Windows 98, or is there a security setting or something in
Windows XP that I can change so I can story this information. Typing
domain\username and my password each time to check is a pain.
Thanks for any help anyone can give. |
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Michael Solomon (MS-MVP)
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Thu Dec 23, 2004 2:00 am Post subject:
Re: accessing school e-mail from home |
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I'm not sure how you are accomplishing this but the issue may have something
to do with the following, Windows XP Home Edition cannot log on to a domain.
Perhaps, the system to which you are attempting to log on, doesn't require
actually logging on to the domain to check e-mail. In other words, it sees
your user name and password and allows you access to your e-mail which might
be stored on a different server.
Nonetheless, the fact XP Home can't logon to a domain may be the reason you
are seeing what you are seeing.
You might want to move this to the windowsxp.network_web newsgroup.
--
Michael Solomon MS-MVP
Windows Shell/User
Backup is a PC User's Best Friend
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| Quote: | Hi all. I realize you are very busy at this time of the year, but I hope
you
don't mind if I pick your brains for a moment. I recently purchased a new
dell with a windows xp home operating system. My former computer, had a
windows 98 second edition operating system. When I would attempt to
access
my school's e-mail account from home (webmail.centennialsd.org) I would
get
the pop up box with three separate lines: user name, password, and
domain.
There was also the option to check remember password, so I wouldn't have
to
enter it each time.
In Windows XP home, there are only two lines, user name and password. I
remembered to enter my domain\username as my username from my school, and
my
password was as usual. However there was no check box to remember my
password. There was a drop down arrow by the user name box, but even
after I
logged on successfully, the drop down box did not remember my user name or
password. There was a littl grayed out box with three dots in it next to
the
drop down arrow, but it never became active. Is this due to a change in
Windows XP versus Windows 98, or is there a security setting or something
in
Windows XP that I can change so I can story this information. Typing
domain\username and my password each time to check is a pain.
Thanks for any help anyone can give. |
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