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FIBSBoard general => General Chit Chat => Topic started by: atease on October 13, 2005, 08:30:07 AM

Title: Can't Connect To Fibs
Post by: atease on October 13, 2005, 08:30:07 AM
hello,

for several weeks now i can't connect to fibs. anyone know what's going on?
Title: Can't Connect To Fibs
Post by: Tom on October 13, 2005, 01:26:34 PM
works here... several weeks? sounds like a configuration problem on your end

tom
Title: Can't Connect To Fibs
Post by: diane on October 13, 2005, 01:34:58 PM
It might help people to help if you could give more information - what messages do you recieve when you try to log in etc.  It can be for many different reasons - I was unable to log in for a while cos my client had somehow corrupted my password in its memory - the fix for that was to simply retype in my password.

Please give us a little more to go on.

But it certainly is something at your end - fibs has been just fine for all that time - as you could have found out by checking the link on the home page here to check fibsboard status.
Title: Can't Connect To Fibs
Post by: Hardy_whv on October 13, 2005, 03:19:37 PM
Especially:

 - What interface are you using (JavaFIBS, 3DFIBS, .....)?
 - Could you log in before?
 - What did you change since your last successful login?
 - Do you receive an error message from FIBS?

Hardy  :wacko:  
Title: Can't Connect To Fibs
Post by: atease on October 16, 2005, 03:53:23 PM
hi, i'm using CocoaFibs for Mac OS X Haven't changed a thing. Message says something like 'attempt to login has failed'. Tried it as well with JavaFibs... and i think it said 'connection refused'.
Not a password thing, cause that's the first thing i checked. I did download the latest CocoaFibs to make sure i got everything right. But tried all of this on two different computers and it's just not going through.
Title: Can't Connect To Fibs
Post by: Hardy_whv on October 16, 2005, 07:25:59 PM
How did you check its not a password thing? If FIBS says "connection refused" it sounds to me, that there is a connection to FIBS, but you are not accepted to log in. And having tested it with two interfaces, its neither a CocoaFibs nor JavaFIBS issue.

Try once to log in via a web-based interface, like JavaFIBS-Applet: http://www.fibs.com/~cthulhu/ (http://www.fibs.com/~cthulhu/)

If it still doesn't work, I guess, there's something wrong with your account. If I ask FIBS "whois atease" it tells me: "No Information about user atease". Looks like you don't exist there at all.

Yours,

Hardy  :blink:  
Title: Can't Connect To Fibs
Post by: atease on October 17, 2005, 10:29:19 AM
i know it's not a password thing, because i retyped the correct password several times. and logging in through the webinterface tells me i apparently don't exist indeed.

how did this happen?
Title: Can't Connect To Fibs
Post by: adamosad on October 17, 2005, 10:46:11 AM
Hi atease,

Maybe you have not entered the server for a long period. In that case, I think that your account is deleted automatically. If this is not the case, then email Patti and ask her . . .
Title: Can't Connect To Fibs
Post by: atease on October 17, 2005, 10:49:58 AM
nope, that's not the case either. as you can see i'm addicted ;)
how do i contact Patti?
Title: Can't Connect To Fibs
Post by: adamosad on October 17, 2005, 10:55:13 AM
Send an email to pattib@fibs.com