cacroll Posted August 17, 2003 Share Posted August 17, 2003 My mother dials in to MSN (DOHH) using the MSN dialin wizard, thru the internal modem, with no protection. I replaced that with an SMC7004ABR NAT router, with an external modem. I extracted the userid and password from the MSN sequence, and applied them to the ABR Setup. But when I try to connect from the ABR, it reports "Username and Password : failed".Mom verified for me that I got the userid and password right.Can MSN work with a hardware configured dialin, or is the wizard essential? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
volunteer Posted August 18, 2003 Share Posted August 18, 2003 My mother dials in to MSN (DOHH) using the MSN dialin wizard, thru the internal modem, with no protection. I replaced that with an SMC7004ABR NAT router, with an external modem. I extracted the userid and password from the MSN sequence, and applied them to the ABR Setup. But when I try to connect from the ABR, it reports "Username and Password : failed".Mom verified for me that I got the userid and password right.Can MSN work with a hardware configured dialin, or is the wizard essential?Cacroll, welcome. First, I don't use MSN. I think contacting them might be the quickest and easiest since there doesn't seem to be a MSN user in the forum. I know several people that use a dial-up modem and a router/firewall combination.You have added two new pieces of hardware. Can you login using just the external modem? If it is a wizard why can't you make an identical dial up account pointed to the ext. modem? If you can, then you need to look at the router set-up again.In most cases with a standalone dial-up, a free software firewall is plenty of protection: Zone Alarm, Outpost, and Tiny just to name a few.Let us know what you find.Ken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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