I have the same account set up on my desktop, which uses Win XP. So it's not
a matter of not knowing the correct names. The news server is ready to
download, except for that pesky Windows security popup.
"Paul Adare - MVP" <pkadare@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:j4wlyb416daw$.1luliaasidhhi$.dlg@xxxxxx
Quote:
> On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 11:58:49 -0500, Coogee wrote:
> Quote:
>> I have done this many, many times, and the results are still the same.
>
> Then you need to go back to whomever the news provider is and work with
> them. Some news servers (for example the ones that host the Microsoft
> private news groups) require that the username be preceded by a domain
> name
> - domainname\username.
>
> --
> Paul Adare
> MVP - Identity Lifecycle Manager
> http://www.identit.ca
> A computer scientist is someone who fixes things that aren't broken.