# All computers but mine seem to be working.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-computers-but-mine-seem-to-be-working/163150>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 21, 2003, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-computers-but-mine-seem-to-be-working/163150 "2003-03-21T17:08:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![cj\_finn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@cj\_finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cj_finn)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2003, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-computers-but-mine-seem-to-be-working/163150/1 "2003-03-21T17:08:56Z")

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I have a membership at the website [www.webscription.net](http://www.webscription.net) where you can purchase and download ebooks from Baen Books. (Great place by the way.)

One day, I noticed that I could no longer access my account, from home or work. I’ve been corresponding with the system admin from webscription and the account works at his end. The system administrators at my ISP could login to my account from both Kansas (I think) and Minnesota (where I am located). Those two states are because my ISP has been bought more times that I can count. A friend in Milwaukee can login as well.

Any computer that has had contact with my work computer apparently will not allow me to login. The error appears to be of the “page not found” variety and is limited to my login attempts only as I can access the rest of the site.

No other computers at my office will get me access to my account either. Not even after I’ve deleted all cookies relating to Baen or Webscription.

Any ideas of what setting has been set up to block me? Keep in mind that I have full access to our server and to its settings if need be. We’re running W2K and Exchange with the full suite of MS Office programs.

Help! No one else can.

cj

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**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2003, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-computers-but-mine-seem-to-be-working/163150/2 "2003-03-21T17:18:11Z")

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Hmmm…maybe a stale page in your cache? Try clearing out tempfiles and see if that works.

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**Author:** ![LordVor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/90ced4/32.png) [@LordVor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LordVor)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2003, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-computers-but-mine-seem-to-be-working/163150/3 "2003-03-21T17:53:31Z")

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Are computers that are failing to log in using proxy settings? If so, is the SSL proxy set up as well as the HTML proxy? (If not, and [webscription.net](http://webscription.net) uses security for their logins (which they should), then your computer won’t go through the proxy server for the SSL connection, and fail to find the server on your local sub-net).

-lv