Subj : Totally Confused... To : Digital Man From : Martin Kazmaier Date : Sun Dec 21 2025 12:45 am DM> Re: Totally Confused... DM> By: Martin Kazmaier to Digital Man on Sat Dec 20 2025 05:53 pm DM> > DM> > I added that and it still does the same thing. I gave up and am DM> using DM> > DM> an DM> > DM> > external server. This was quite unpleasant. I followed the DM> > DM> instructions DM> > DM> > to the letter and it didn't work as stated. DM> > DM> I agree: you've been quite unpleasant to deal with. Good riddance. DM> -- DM> > DM> digital man (rob) DM> > Have you never dealt with a neuro-divergent individual? DM> Of course I have. DM> > We can be difficult, but we totally mean well. Our brains don't work DM> > like normal people's, we don't think coherently or cohesively, DM> > but we can be highly intelligent. That's the only way we remain DM> > semi-lucid. I didn't mean to cause you difficulty, I just don't DM> > deal well when things don't work the way they DM> are DM> > supposed to. In my case, it's the new user procedure that needs to be DM> > disabled. Every time I connect, it's as a new user and the real name DM> isn't DM> > accepted as the same as the handle (sbbs simply reports that it's DM> either a DM> > dupe or invalid) as I think it's only 1 word. DM> And I told you how to disable that real name prompt. Ok, I just went through every message from you to me and didn't see that. Could you please tell me again? DM> If you connect a second time with the same name, that wouldn't be another DM> new user either, so "every time" sounds incorrect as well. It is forcing me to create a new user each time I connect because the real name is invalid or duplicate. It doesn't say which. I have multiple users with the same handle and different real names... That on it's own is confusing. DM> > I'd love to be able to get this to work, but until then I'll be DM> > semi-satisfied with using the anet online game server for individual DM> > games. DM> Cool. I've never heard of it. Looks like it's running Synchronet: DM> a-net-online.lol -- digital man (rob) Yep, he's got it working so I can use that until I can manage this. I would love to work with you on this and will try to calm down my idiosynchracies (sorry I couldn't remember how to spell that) so that I'm easier to deal with. He spent about 2 years to get his to the state that it's at. Rob McGee (x-bit) also has a game server. His just asks for username and location as well as mouse reporting and ansi on new user connection. I was hoping to get to that state. Exodus also has one set up so that people can access sbbs games from his Renegade. If that many people can use it, it shouldn't be as difficult as I've experienced. Perhaps they all used a newer version. I just went to the synchronet website, which seemed the logical place to get the latest version. I did read the game server wiki (thanks to Stringray for pointing me to that) and follow it's instructions before I had my melt-down. -- Shurato, Sysop Shurato's Heavenly Sphere (ssh, telnet, pop3, ftp,nntp, ,wss) (Ports 22,23,110,21,119,999) *** THE READER V4.50 [freeware] --- * Origin: Shurato's Heavenly Sphere telnet://shsbbs.net (1:340/1101) .