On Wednesday 30 January 2002 03:11 pm, Oliver L.Plaine Jr wrote: > On Wednesday 30 January 2002 13:43, Marcia typed: > > Dear All, > > > > I have been trying to set up my Knode with the vmware email newsgroup > > and I must be doing something wrong. Whenever I try to send or > > receive mail it says there is an error- cannot resolve hostname or > > something like that. Could anyone help me set up the vmware > > newsgroup? Any help will be greatly appreciated. I have LM8.1 and > > want to install the vmware 2.04 , but I have not been able to do so > > yet. I am hoping to get some answers from the newsgroup since I have > > not been able to make it work with the suggestions offered here so > > far. Thanks for all of your help. > > ---------------- > Wednesday 30 January 2002--14:52 > > I dial in with KPPP Marcia, and when I have a connection to my ISP > running...I use other programs . sometimes when I trigger a line in > KNODE without being connected to the ISP it gives me the same > message...so no line in will cause it to do that ., my netnews server > does not require a login or password...perhaps yours does? > > Do you have netnews set up in netscape navigator? can you get to it > from there? > > Last night I set up SLRNPULL to snag newsgroups from the same server > and put them on a local /var/spool then read them with SLRN. > > At the moment I have netnews all over the place <grin> all from the > KPPP connection. make a check to see if your server requires > authentication...? > luck
Thank you for your suggestions. I have cable so I do not have to dialin but I will try and see what I can do from Netscape. Hopefully I will be able to connect. Thanks, Marcia
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