On 6 Oct 99 06:17pm, Holger Granholm wrote to George Fliger:

 HG> In a message dated 10-03-99, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard said to
 HG> Holger Granholm:

JP>Hobbes has a limit on the number of anonymous users that can connect
JP>simultaneously.  If you are using an FTP client that treats any
JP>error response from the PASS command as "password is wrong", then it
JP>will have been seeing the "too many anonymous users" message from
JP>the FTP server and treating it as a password error.

 HG> Hello George (and Jonathan),

 HG> Finally I got the connection to work. I tried first the
 HG> suggestions by you to no avail.

 HG> After having found the hobbes.txt file in the FTBrowser
 HG> directory (see my message to Jonathan) I experimented further.

 HG> Finally after having put a hyphen in front of my password I
 HG> made a successful connect with hobbes ftp.

 HG> Below are excerpts from the file hobbes.txt:

>hobbes FTP server (Version wu-2.4(2) Thu May 4 12:16:33 MDT 1995) ready.
>USER anonymous
>Guest login ok, send your complete e-mail address as password.
>PASS ********
>If your FTP client crashes or hangs shortly after login, please try
>using a dash (-) as the first character of your password.  This
>will turn off the informational messages that may be confusing your
>FTP client.

 HG> There we have it.

Great!  Glad you finally got on.

>NMSU has no affiliation with Walnut Creek, makers of the Hobbes OS/2 CD-ROM.

 HG> That is cdrom.com, ain't it ;-)

It's a mirror site.

>You are user 58 out of a possible 200

 HG> And this is what Jonathan mentioned about the number of users.

Seems they've dropped the total number of concurrent logins.  I seem to
remember it used to be 256.

 HG> Thanks to both of you for the suggestions and clarifications.

You're quite welcome.

George


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