winXP, fresh install, connection problems: PrimeNet error 1
 

Hi, I'm hoping for a little help

I just upgraded my computer, hardware: Cel 400-> athlon 1800+ software: win98SE->winXP, prime95: ~19->22.8

I connect through a proxy with authentication, so I copied my old primenet.ini along with my save-files and worktodo.ini, deleting the "ProxyMask=1" line, and resetting my password.

version 22.8 and 22.7 goes "PrimeNet error 1" when I try to connect, but they set the ProxyMask=1 and encodes my password.

version 21 goes "PrimeNet error 12029", and doesn't change primenet.ini

I havn't tried earlier versions, since I belive optimizations have been done since then?

I've tried extracting the files both with the winxp build-in capability, and winzip, and I've tried getting the zip-file with three different programs, no change.


Anyone with some clues?

-Dennis

Wait until PrimeNet comes back ...

Re: winXP, fresh install, connection problems: PrimeNet erro
 

Proxy support was removed from these recent versions. You will have to use v.22.1, or you will have to sneakernet (very easy to do).

others report the server is down - try later.

[quote="DennisJ"]

version 22.8 and 22.7 goes "PrimeNet error 1" when I try to connect, but they set the ProxyMask=1 and encodes my password.

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Re: winXP, fresh install, connection problems: PrimeNet erro
 

[quote="PageFault"]Proxy support was removed from these recent versions. [/quote]

V22 supports proxy servers - but only basic authentication method. If your server requires NTLM challenge/response authentication, then you'll have to use version 21.4. For an Athlon CPU this is just as fast as v22,
you do lose a few features like installing as a service, etc.

I don't know what NTLM challenge/response authentication is, so I don't know if the proxy requires it (how do I test?), but I tried using 21.4 for a while, and looked through my settings there, and found that for the test of this version, I'd accidentally deleted the "[PrimeNet Proxy]" line. Correcting this changed the error message to "PrimeNet error 2250", but now version 21 encodes the password. The faq then says I should use http. Well, the setting in prime95 says http, and prime.ini has the line "UseHTTP=1".

22.8 still gives error 1, and password is encoded, with primenet.ini double checked

Btw, i never got older versions of mprime to work under linux, where I got the exact same error (2250) but there I just ignored it, since it worked in windows[1], so I could contact the server by just rebooting twice.

Still hoping to use automatic connections to primenet, will contact again, when primenet is reported up, at least it eliminates a source of error.

If it doesn't start working again tomorrow, is there some debug switch I can set, to help finding the problem?


-Dennis Jørgensen

[1]prime95 needs the "[PrimeNet Proxy]"-line, mprime complains about that line. Why the lack of compatibility[2]

[2] Well, this was the case in version ~18-19, I don't know if it's changed.