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Lost DUN Server Password
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Windows
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Dial up networking
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00172396
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>>>A user has forgotten his dialup server password on win95. anyone know how to clear it out. we have uninstalled and reinstalled dun, but the password is still there.
>>>thanks in advance,
>>>gray
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>>In their WINDOWS folder, there will be a file named username.PWL. (ie: user=xyz filename is xyz.pwl) You can delete or rename this file. Be warned that this file contains ALL passwords used by windows for this user. Suggest you back up this file first, before you delete it or just rename it.
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>i figured out how to get rid of it. it is not a per user password but the dialup server password ( same regardless of user, attached to incoming calls ).
>to get it cleared out i had to uninstall dialup networking, reboot, rename c:\windows\rna.pwl to rna.xxx, reboot, then reinstall dialup networking.

Oops, sorry I mis-read your note. Glad you got it fixed.
Fred
Microsoft Visual FoxPro MVP

foxcentral.net
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