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Logging In

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The CoffeeLink News Server Configure program allows you to remotely configure a CLNews server from anywhere on your network. Naturally, Configure needs to know which server to configure. And the server needs to know that you are authorized to configure it. The act of identifying a server and authenticating yourself is known as logging in. You log in to a server using the Login Window. Configure automatically presents the login window when it starts up. You can also manually log in by selecting Login... from the Server menu.

The login window requests four pieces of information from you.

Host
The network host name (e.g. news.somewhere.com) or IP address (e.g. 192.168.5.2) of the computer running the CLNews server.

Port
The port number that the CLNews server is listening to. This is generally either 119 or 1199, depending on your platform.

Username
The user name you wish to use on the server. This is generally admin. Note that this is a CLNews user name, not an operating system user name.

Password
The password for the specified user. The default password for the admin user is admin.

YOU SHOULD CHANGE THE ADMIN USER'S PASSWORD IMMEDIATELY AFTER INSTALLING CLNews! Otherwise anyone with a copy of CLNews and a network connection can reconfigure your server! See Security Considerations for more information.

After filling in the requested information, click the OK button to login to the server or click the Cancel button to close the login window without logging in. If any of the information you provided is incorrect, Configure displays a window explaining the error. Verify that the CLNews server is running on the specified host and port, and that the specified user name and password are correct. Then either restart Configure or select Login... from the Server menu to try again. If Configure successfully logs in to the CLNews server the login window will close and you can begin configuring your server.


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