I have several little programs,american greetings creatacard,my camera
pic editor,printshop,etc. All of these offer (as does any?place the
'send to' option.When I choose 'mail recipient' it takes me to a small
window that says 'Enter Network Password'. 'This secure website (at
loginnet.passport.com) requires you to log on'. then has the places for
user name and password. I enter these, click ok and it takes me to a
full screen blank page,with of course their address in address box with
a lot of other words and slashes etc. Anyway, does NETWORK password mean
if I'm on a network (multiuser) system?Is this why I get nowhere? I just
don't understand. I don't even know what loginnet.com is or where it
came from. I do ok if I use my e-mail and send pics, etc. as attachment,
but shouldn't I be able to mail stuff from all my artsy programs etc?I
use hotmail, or cox for my actual email.windowsxp home edition, on
emachine laptop. THANKS to anyone that can figure out what i need
(besides a computer course) Dazed & Cofused (often)mzpiggy
Simplistic explanation but may help with the big picture: When you connect
to the internet, you become one computer on a huge network. Websites are
located on servers within that network. When you click an URL, it send a
request through the network to a particular server and asks to see a
specific html file. The html file, a web page, appears in your browser.
Some servers allow authorized access only. A user name and password is
needed to view content. Some of those servers will use "Passport" as the
authorization vehicle - a username/password tool found in XP.
Something may be fishy though. Logging on to a site with a Passport account
usually traverses through login.passport.com for authorization. That is
what I see here when I use Passport anyhow. You're seeing a screen for
loginnet.passport.com instead. Here is a web page you can visit to see if
you have any malware on your system:
http://www.doxdesk.com/parasite/
If anything is detected, you can look it up at the same site to learn more
about what that particular parasite does and how to get rid of it.
Be sure to check your system for viruses too. If your antivirus program's
virus definitions have not been updated recently, do that. Then perform a
full system scan. Check help file of antivirus program for more info on how
to do these things if you need it.
As far as emailing from within your programs.... It just depends. Some
programs interface great with the more commonly used email clients. Others
simply stink at it or never work with *your* email program. You have to
work this out on a program by program basis - finding out which ones work
with your email programs and how they do that (directions should be in the
program's help files).
With the internet so accessible nowadays, many programs interconnect with a
website provided by and maintained by the software distributor. (You might
see a logon request to use the special resources but I don't think it would
be a logon request for "loginnet.com" - it would be the *.com for the site
that you're at instead.)
The interface of programs that mix local content (on your computer) with
internet content (that big network out there) may not make it clear when
you're working with what. However, all of this would be within the scope of
each program individually. Spend a little time with each one trying to
learn more about its features and capabilities a bit more.
I know that Help files can seem like techno-babble the first few times you
look at them but over time, as your hands-on experience increases, they
really do start to make more sense.
