Re: accessing company's e-mail from home

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From: Vagabond Software (carlfenley-X-_at_-X-san.rr.com)
Date: 12/21/04 

Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 00:52:50 -0800

Are you connected through an "always on" broadband straight through your browser or are you launching some sort of VPN session before visiting the webmail site?

Also, under the Internet Explorer Tools-Internet Options menu, select the Security tab and click the Custom button. Scroll all the way to the bottom of the list of options and tell me the setting of your User Authentication.

carl

"Eric and Megan Swope" <swope1221@verizon.net> wrote in message news:LSMxd.3076$He3.831@trndny05...
> Hi Carl. I tried your suggestion with tools, internet options menu, auto
> complete, etc. and no dice. Maybe we can try your other suggestion.
> "shaggy" <shaggy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:BEF1FF2B-C591-442D-966A-20D0C8196999@microsoft.com...
>> Thanks Carl. I am at work now, so I will try your suggestion later
>> tonight,
>> and post back tomorrow.
>>
>> "Vagabond Software" wrote:
>>
>>> Using the Tools-Internet Options menu in Internet Explorer, select the
>>> Content tab and click the AutoComplete button.
>>>
>>> Check the "Prompt me to save passwords" checkbox and click OK. Close all
>>> instances of Internet Explorer, then try your mail site again.
>>>
>>> If this doesn't help, I have one more idea we can try.
>>>
>>> carl
>>>
>>>
>>> "shaggy" <shaggy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>>> news:A0D40DBF-F014-4569-BE7B-456157C72CEC@microsoft.com...
>>> > 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.
>>>
>
>

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