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Optional authentication for servers

Posted: September 12th, 2011, 10:26 am
by Mickbravo
Hi,

I'd like to use the newsserver from my provider which is for free. But the free and "speed limited" account must be used without username password.
Now I found out if you leave those fields blank the username and passwords are still used.

So I can not use these free newsservers. Is it possible to make the authentication part of a server optional?
Thank you very much in advance.

Re: Optional authentication for servers

Posted: September 12th, 2011, 12:08 pm
by sander
Sounds strange: blank fields, but SAB fills out a username/password anyway? Where does SAB get that username/password from if the fields are blank?

Anyway:
Stop SABnzbd
Find and rename sabnzbd.ini on your harddisk
Start sabnzbd: it will start the wizard. Fill out the newsserver, and no username/password.

HTH

Re: Optional authentication for servers

Posted: September 13th, 2011, 5:45 pm
by Mickbravo
That did the trick. I renamed my sabnzbd.ini and created a new one through the wizard.
Afterwards I opened the new server section and copied it back into the renamed ini file.

Then I renamed the ini files backed and started the "service" again. I worked like a charm. Thnx for the suggestion.

Re: Optional authentication for servers

Posted: September 14th, 2011, 3:04 am
by shypike
Can you check your backed up INI file and see if there are a user name and password in it for the server?
It's a text file, you can open it with Notepad (or TextEdit or Vi).

Re: Optional authentication for servers

Posted: September 19th, 2011, 3:16 pm
by pmow
I've been working on it, fixing up some pages recently and redoing others. O0