"Sarah Anne" <lying_happy_eyes@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:cUzAc.92290$B63.34491@doctor.cableinet.net...

Hello,

I'm not overly familiar with Newsgroups but this is the only place I can
find for help with setting up SETI@Home! (The official message forum

relies

on the fact that users can use the program to set up an account...?).

To explain, I've followed these instructions:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/djdohboy/seti.htm

Yet when I try and type in my details for a new account, i get:
http://www.sarahanne.co.uk/temp/seti_error.png

I've tried looking through message forums, etc, for help but I've still no
idea where I'm going wrong... this seems like such a simple thing to set
up..?

I've set the preferences to just connect as a screensaver and to conntect
automatically whenever needed (the latter because I'm on

Telewest/Blueyonder

broadband). I'm running Windows XP Home and don't have any funny
modifications to the OS etc, no firewalls... it's just a straightforward
machine that should be able to use SETI@Home without any glitches.

Please help! :)

Sarah Anne.

--  SarahAnne.co.uk -- 
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Sarah,

I'm on Telewest as well, and having the same problem trying to connect to
SETI to send / retrieve work units.

It's a problem SETI@home know about, and in time it will resolve itself.

So, for now, no crunching can take place if we cannot get work units...!

Frustrating but true.

H.