accessing school e-mail from home

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Hi all. I realize you are very busy at this time of the year, but I hope you
don't mind if I pick your brains for a moment. I recently purchased a new
dell with a windows xp home operating system. My former computer, had a
windows 98 second edition operating system. When I would attempt to access
my school's e-mail account from home (webmail.centennialsd.org) I would get
the pop up box with three separate lines: user name, password, and domain.
There was also the option to check remember password, so I wouldn't have to
enter it each time.

In Windows XP home, there are only two lines, user name and password. I
remembered to enter my domain\username as my username from my school, and my
password was as usual. However there was no check box to remember my
password. There was a drop down arrow by the user name box, but even after I
logged on successfully, the drop down box did not remember my user name or
password. There was a littl grayed out box with three dots in it next to the
drop down arrow, but it never became active. Is this due to a change in
Windows XP versus Windows 98, or is there a security setting or something in
Windows XP that I can change so I can story this information. Typing
domain\username and my password each time to check is a pain.
Thanks for any help anyone can give.
 
I'm not sure how you are accomplishing this but the issue may have something
to do with the following, Windows XP Home Edition cannot log on to a domain.
Perhaps, the system to which you are attempting to log on, doesn't require
actually logging on to the domain to check e-mail. In other words, it sees
your user name and password and allows you access to your e-mail which might
be stored on a different server.

Nonetheless, the fact XP Home can't logon to a domain may be the reason you
are seeing what you are seeing.

You might want to move this to the windowsxp.network_web newsgroup.
 
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