I have done this many, many times, and the results are still the same.
"Mr. Arnold" <MR. Arnold@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Coogee" <coogee@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:uWYqB6TGJHA.3664@xxxxxx Quote:
>> New laptop with Vista. I'm the admin, only account. Trying to set up
>> newsgroups from my news server, which requires me to log on. All is set
>> up OK in the account screens. When I try to initially download the
>> newsgroups on the server, up pops a Windows security notice, asking me to
>> log on to the newsgroups server- "verify that both username and password
>> are correct for your mail server". After I enter user name and password,
>> and click OK, the screen keeps popping up asking for same prompt. I am
>> giving it the correct info, but will not accept, so can't begin to
>> download newsgroups. Whatever I enter will change what's in the account
>> screen for the server setup. Tried turning all the windows security
>> options off that I could find, but still can't get past the security
>> screen. Any advice on this?
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> Well, if you're using Windows Mail as the newsreader, then WM won't hold
> that user-id and psw at times, and it won't accept the credentials with
> repeated prompts asking for the credentials. You can be posting and it
> will loose the credentials too, and it starts prompting.
>
> The best way to fix this is to shutdown the newsreader, start it up again,
> go to your account and give the credentials there to see if they will hold
> permanently.
>
> I have seen this problem on Vista for Outlook and POP3 where the
> credentials are lost, and it keeps asking for the credentials and never
> holds, until one goes back to the account to fix it.
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