Accessing Forums

Published on February 22, 2007 By Stephen Lee-Woolf In Stardock Software

I am having difficulties in gaining access to the Forums through an external Newsreader client. I can get in through the web to forums.stardock.com but, when I try with my newsreader program to connect to news.stardock.com I get an error claiming that the connection has failed as login required.

My client is passing the same credentials as are successfully used on the web connection, but they don't appear to be recognised.

Can anyone suggest where I am going wrong? Thanks

Comments

Lantec

on Feb 22, 2007

My client is passing the same credentials as are successfully used on the web connection

My news server doesn't carry Stardock so I'm guessing, but I believe I have a different password for my Stardock account as I do for my Wincustomize account.

Stephen Lee-Woolf

on Feb 22, 2007

ON the web I am accessing the forums on the STARDOCK site (not Wincustomize) and I am attempting to use the same username/password when connecting to the Stardock news server via the external client. I am not using Wincustomize credentials at all on this.

ZubaZ

on Feb 22, 2007

Jeez! I didn't know the newsgroups were still active. I used to love them but migrated away to these forums.

Lantec

on Feb 22, 2007

ON the web I am accessing the forums on the STARDOCK site (not Wincustomize

Can't tell that from here. In fact the "Section" this thread is in is Stardock Support - Wincustomize......Bichur should know the answer he uses the NG

Neil Banfield

on Feb 22, 2007

The newsgroups do not use usernames & passwords.

It does appear news.stardock.com is down. It is barely used thesedays so I suspect nobody noticed.

ZubaZ

on Feb 22, 2007

Coming back up?

Stephen Lee-Woolf

on Feb 22, 2007

Looks like it already is! I have managed to connect my Newsreader to it.

Looks like Neil is right - there aren't many recent posts on it. I was hoping that it would be kept synchronised with the forums so it wouldn't matter which way users wanted the system to work.

Bichur

on Feb 22, 2007

yeah, no password needed - just 'subscribe' - I used to access via OLE - but since I got Office 2003, I'm not even sure Express is still installed (have to look later) & starting early last year it seemed posts there were rapidly dwindling. I'm guessing more people are doing the chat thing.

Might have to wander off over sometime and take a look...

I never saw any sychronization with forums

did kinda wish it was incorporated into SDC though

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