dialup password problems

[Chris]

hi all,
thanks is advance for the help.

a friend has a machine that we have put winxp on.
everything seems to be working great except.....
we had built a dialer to connect to the internet. he had
some company and "not me" made a change or two. now when
the dialer is called up (by outlook express, IE, or the
shortcut on the desktop) there is a 16 charactor password
in the box. if we hit "connect" we get an "invalid
username/password" error. we clear the 16 charator
password, put in the correct password, it connects just
fine.
we have removed the connection (deleted the dialer),
created a new connection (new dialer), and the 16
charactor password issue remains.
we are open for ideas/suggestions/fixes.

thanks again,
Chris

 

[Andrew Warren]

Hi Chris,

I can't help you with your specific problem, but I have
been wondering also why I get the extras on my password
next time I go to dialup, if I have ticked the checkbox
for "Save password" previously. When I click on connect,
It connects anyway with the longer password, (Without the
invalid username/password error), or if I delete it and
put my usual one in.

I am interested to see if anyone else knows anything
about this topic !!

Best regards,

Andrew Warren

 

[Jason Haynes]

Ooh! Me, me!! Don't be fooled by the number of characters in the password
field. The password you saved is there. XP spoofs the number of password
characters as a security measure.

 

[Andrew Warren]

Hi Jason,

Thanks for the advice - I was fairly sure that it was
normal as I had seen it happening on a friends computer
also, but in the current virus/worm climate I am finding
myself paranoid about every little thing !!!

Cheers,

Andrew Warren

 

[Jason Haynes]

No problem. I had the same question when I switched to XP.