Re: setting up hobbynet woes
By: Rixter to all on Sun Dec 01 2024 09:18 am

Howdy,

So if stuff is coming into "nonsecure", then there is issues with authentication.

Make sure the following:
* The "session" password is case sensitive (when using CRAM-MD5) - so make sure your passwords have the same case.

* Also make sure, since Mike run's two networks, that your binkp password is the same for both networks. In the above outbound, your authentication might have passed for 999:*, but might be silently failing for 954:*

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I should say the areafix login and requests are generating error level 0. There is obviously an authentication error somewhere. My password is 7 numbers and it works for areafix. I asked mike to change it to a mix of numbers and letters today. Maybe that is the fix to the problem. It’s got me aggravated because setting up fsxNet was a 20 minute fast setup and running deal. Thanks for writing back to me.

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Re: setting up hobbynet woes
By: Rixter to all on Sun Dec 01 2024 09:18 am

You're receiving echomail in your non-secure inbound directory (and they're ignored by SBBSecho consequently). That suggests that your BinkP session was not authenticated (i.e. with a password).
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I guess even if the areafix login password works with error level 0 it can be bad for the messages packets? Do you think mike at hobbynet set my passwords up incorrectly? I had it agreed on as 7 numbers, I asked him to change it to 8 characters being 4 numbers and 4 capital letters. I have been watching your YouTube video on fidonet set. I hope it helps. Thanks for your help!

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Re: setting up hobbynet woes
By: Rixter to Digital Man on Sun Dec 01 2024 08:58 pm

I guess even if the areafix login password works with error level 0 it can be bad for the messages packets?

A session password is different than a packet password which is different than an areafix password.

Do you think mike at hobbynet set my
passwords up incorrectly?

I don't know. You haven't shared any logs snippets to tell us.

I had it agreed on as 7 numbers, I asked him to
change it to 8 characters being 4 numbers and 4 capital letters.

That should not matter.

I have been
watching your YouTube video on fidonet set. I hope it helps. Thanks for your help!

Good luck!
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Re: setting up hobbynet woes
By: Rixter to deon on Sun Dec 01 2024 08:51 pm

Howdy,

I should say the areafix login and requests are generating error level 0. There is obviously an authentication error somewhere. My password is 7 numbers and it works for areafix. I asked mike to change it to a mix of numbers and letters today. Maybe that is the fix to the problem. It's got me aggravated because setting up fsxNet was a 20 minute fast setup and running deal. Thanks for writing back to me.

I think DM replied.

Your "session" password is used for BINKP sessions - which is the issue here because mail is going in the "unsecure" dir.

Areafix, Filefix and packet passwords are *not* used during BINKP sessions - they are for other things, so you can ignore those for now and focus on your ensuring your session passwords match *exactly* with Mike. (And if you have both health and hobbynet addresses, make sure they are exactly the same.)


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Re: setting up hobbynet woes
By: Rixter to deon on Sun Dec 01 2024 08:51 pm

Howdy,

I think DM replied.

Your "session" password is used for BINKP sessions - which is the issue here because mail is going in the "unsecure" dir.

Areafix, Filefix and packet passwords are *not* used during BINKP sessions - they are for other things, so you can ignore those for now and focus on your ensuring your session passwords match *exactly* with Mike. (And if you have both health and hobbynet addresses, make sure they are exactly the same.)

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Mike got it fixed, getting lots of messages now. Thanks.

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Re: setting up hobbynet woes
By: Rixter to Digital Man on Sun Dec 01 2024 08:58 pm

A session password is different than a packet password which is different than an areafix password.

I don't know. You haven't shared any logs snippets to tell us.

That should not matter.

Good luck!
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digital man (rob)

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Mike at hobby network got it fixed. I have lots of messages to catch up on now. Thank you.

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