FTP, FileZilla and/or Win10
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Last night, tried to FTP to my web site as I often do. It failed numerous times. it was late so I gave up for the evening but I was annoyed but thought I was using the wrong pwd or something. Today i tried again and tested pwd numerous times. Every time it failed with a "530 user cannot login" back from the server. Tried it from command line and Filezilla. Nothing. Could not get through to any ftp site. Everything else works great (http, web sites, etc). Finally, I gave up and decided to reboot. Even though I had rebooted just a couple of days ago with the new windows updates. Yep, reboot fixed it. I blame Windows 10, because that is the popular thing to do. :rolleyes: But it also seems like the right thing.
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Last night, tried to FTP to my web site as I often do. It failed numerous times. it was late so I gave up for the evening but I was annoyed but thought I was using the wrong pwd or something. Today i tried again and tested pwd numerous times. Every time it failed with a "530 user cannot login" back from the server. Tried it from command line and Filezilla. Nothing. Could not get through to any ftp site. Everything else works great (http, web sites, etc). Finally, I gave up and decided to reboot. Even though I had rebooted just a couple of days ago with the new windows updates. Yep, reboot fixed it. I blame Windows 10, because that is the popular thing to do. :rolleyes: But it also seems like the right thing.
I had a similar problem logging into a system a week ago (from Windows 10) - the password kept being rejected. When I also was unable to log onto a database server I was getting even more concerned that someone had hacked in and reset passwords. Turned out to be something simple - Windows 10 had switched my keyboard to a US layout from my normal UK one. Both passwords contained punctuation characters which were being switched due to the change of layout.
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I had a similar problem logging into a system a week ago (from Windows 10) - the password kept being rejected. When I also was unable to log onto a database server I was getting even more concerned that someone had hacked in and reset passwords. Turned out to be something simple - Windows 10 had switched my keyboard to a US layout from my normal UK one. Both passwords contained punctuation characters which were being switched due to the change of layout.
Al_Brown wrote:
Windows 10 had switched my keyboard to a US layout from my normal UK one
Windows keyboard handling is brain-dead. We have a number of systems in-house that we've had to re-image after a Chinese customer had used them and installed Chinese keyboard support. It wasn't possible to uninstall it, and it persistently reset the keyboard to a Chinese layout.
Software Zen:
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I had a similar problem logging into a system a week ago (from Windows 10) - the password kept being rejected. When I also was unable to log onto a database server I was getting even more concerned that someone had hacked in and reset passwords. Turned out to be something simple - Windows 10 had switched my keyboard to a US layout from my normal UK one. Both passwords contained punctuation characters which were being switched due to the change of layout.
Al_Brown wrote:
Windows 10 had switched my keyboard to a US layout from my normal UK one
Interesting...and quite terrible that Win10 did that. Not sure how you even noticed the change. Maybe you typed your password somewhere where it showed up and then you noticed the chars were different?