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WanderingAlbatross - Wing-tipping down the rollers of life's ocean. Started conversation Jun 23, 2004
Jim,
Thaks for the time if you pick this up. Fairly new to using h2g2 but seem to be having sign on problems using other BBC message boards. Keep getting prompted on my home PC to change my user name. Is this being addresed or me being thick.
Travel hopefully.....
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Jim Lynn Posted Jun 23, 2004
You can't use your h2g2 username on the BBC messageboards - they use an older registration system. You should be able to use the username and password you were using before we changed to using SSO. Don't try and create a new account though - just log in. However, if you can't remember your previous login name and password then you will have to create a new account.
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Amy the Ant - High Manzanilla of the Church of the Stuffed Olive Posted Jun 23, 2004
Hi WanderingAlbatross
*waves at Jim*
Putting this query together with F73685?thread=438806, I'm wondering if your sign-on symptoms (and the difference between your work computer and your PC at home) is due to the cookie settings. You can change the cookie settings in the preferences of your browser.
Amy 
Guru
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WanderingAlbatross - Wing-tipping down the rollers of life's ocean. Posted Jun 23, 2004
Thanks for this, my work settings are defaulted to medium and probably lower at home. I'll play around a bit this evening.
Travel hopefully....
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Amy the Ant - High Manzanilla of the Church of the Stuffed Olive Posted Jun 24, 2004
Did you get this sorted out?
Amy
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WanderingAlbatross - Wing-tipping down the rollers of life's ocean. Posted Jun 24, 2004
Hi Amy the Ant,
The conflict seems to be machine related. I can access h2g2 ok on my work pc but when I then try to log into BBCi with a different user i.d. it seems to be picking up my h2g2. Same at home except other way around. Problem could have been caused by trying to use h2g2 user name on BBCi.
Travel hopefully....
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Amy the Ant - High Manzanilla of the Church of the Stuffed Olive Posted Jun 24, 2004
I still suspect a cookie problem. Do you use the 'remember me' facility for h2g2 (a) at work? (b) at home?
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WanderingAlbatross - Wing-tipping down the rollers of life's ocean. Posted Jun 24, 2004
I did once on both boxes and I think it holds them in tenp files somewhere. Maybe a delete temp internet files?
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Amy the Ant - High Manzanilla of the Church of the Stuffed Olive Posted Jun 24, 2004
I'd be tempted to log out of dna and log out of the message boards and then delete the cookies called BBC-UID and SSO2-UID before logging in. Of course you'd need to be very sure that you knew the right combinations of user ids and passwords before doing this.
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WanderingAlbatross - Wing-tipping down the rollers of life's ocean. Posted Jun 24, 2004
I've got a memory like an Albatross returning to it's nest on Kerguelen Island. And a pen.
Thanks
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- 1: WanderingAlbatross - Wing-tipping down the rollers of life's ocean. (Jun 23, 2004)
- 2: Jim Lynn (Jun 23, 2004)
- 3: Amy the Ant - High Manzanilla of the Church of the Stuffed Olive (Jun 23, 2004)
- 4: WanderingAlbatross - Wing-tipping down the rollers of life's ocean. (Jun 23, 2004)
- 5: Amy the Ant - High Manzanilla of the Church of the Stuffed Olive (Jun 24, 2004)
- 6: WanderingAlbatross - Wing-tipping down the rollers of life's ocean. (Jun 24, 2004)
- 7: Amy the Ant - High Manzanilla of the Church of the Stuffed Olive (Jun 24, 2004)
- 8: WanderingAlbatross - Wing-tipping down the rollers of life's ocean. (Jun 24, 2004)
- 9: Amy the Ant - High Manzanilla of the Church of the Stuffed Olive (Jun 24, 2004)
- 10: WanderingAlbatross - Wing-tipping down the rollers of life's ocean. (Jun 24, 2004)
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