RE: Capitalising of Usernames

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From: Malke (malke_at_nospoonnotreally.com)
Date: 02/03/05 

Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 19:04:09 -0800

Tim Scott wrote:

> Its not that The servers are wrong. They are case sensitive.
>
> What i am saying is that, When they go to hit connect the User name
> magically capitalizes the first lettr of the user name, and since the
> user is case sensitive it wont log on.
>
I'm sorry, but this simply isn't true, at least regarding usernames and
passwords in Windows. All my Windows boxen use lower case usernames
because it's easier in my mixed os network. These are computers running
Win9x, Win2k Pro, Win2003 server, and WinXP Pro SP2. The problem
probably lies with the NetZero connection software.

Malke 

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