How to set up multiple accounts?

newuser · Post by **newuser** » Sun Mar 23, 2003 10:41 pm

I would like to know how to set up newspro so that it can work with more than one account on the same server. For example:
login1 pass1 - news.newsserver.com
login2 pass2 - news.newsserver.com

When I try to ad a second server with the same name as the first, it won't let me do it, even with my different user accounts. The only way I knew was to enter one account and when it reaches its download limit, go to properties and change the login and pass. This is a pain doing it over and over. I also tried using news.newsserver.com and 123.456.789.1 for example and newspro says that these are the same acount, would I like to delete one of them. But I want to use them both at the same time, not one or the other.

edfreeman · Post by **edfreeman** » Sun Mar 23, 2003 11:50 pm

Why, pray tell, do you have two accounts with the same service?

newuser · Post by **newuser** » Mon Mar 24, 2003 12:00 am

They were free accounts with download limits, so I got one and the wife got one.

blackdog56 · Post by **blackdog56** » Mon Mar 24, 2003 12:24 am

It has been discussed before, but if you make sure the check for alias in the general options is not enabled, you can use the server name and server ip. If you have more than 2 accounts, then you need to make up names in your computers hosts file.

alex · Post by **alex** » Mon Mar 24, 2003 3:04 am

For multiple accounts better to use the windows hosts file (maybe too straightforward but the same effective).

Find ip address of the server e.g. here:

http://cello.cs.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/slamm/ip2name

If you have server news.newsserver.com just add these entries in the hosts file ( http://www.accs-net.com/hosts/how_to_use_hosts.html ), supposed the ip address of the server is 62.15.46.58 :

62.15.46.58 news.newsserver1.com
62.15.46.58 news.newsserver2.com
62.15.46.58 news.newsserver3.com
etc.

where the names are arbitrary.

Then in newspro use

news.newsserver1.com
news.newsserver2.com
etc.

You can set one account to download headers with low priority and the rest to message-id direct with suppressed get headers with higher priority strict so it will work automatically and headers will be downloaded only once with the 'header' account used only for headers and so less likely to reach download limit. You need to disable check for aliases in properties->general.

newuser · Post by **newuser** » Mon Mar 24, 2003 5:03 am

thanks, it sounds good. I will give it a try tomarrow. first i have to read up on the "host file" thing. I get it though. it's kind of like algebra; x=1, y=1, z=1, then i can use the variables x,y,z instead of the actual data 1,1,1.

alex · Post by **alex** » Tue Mar 25, 2003 8:56 am

yes, just x=1 is written as

1 x

ip_address server