Re: [Pan-users] Couple of questions

[James Hawtin]

On Fri, 5 Apr 2002 address@hidden wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I installed a new version of Mandrake on my system. I had to delete my
>   .gnome* directories to fix a few config bugs. This trashed all my Pan
>   setup. SO when I restarted Pan, I went back to configure my servers. When
>   I tried to used them, I noticed that clicking on a newsgroup had no
>   effect. Turns out that by default, only one connection is allocated by
>   server. For some reason, this prevents one from clicking on a newsgroup
>   and downloading all the new headers and having them be displayed. I need
>   at least 2 connections to do this. I'm not sure if that's the way it's
>   supposed to be or if there's a problem somewhere.
>

I doubt its ment to be that way, but the problem is with the reserve
connection option. If you want to use one connection you have to turn
reserve connection off otherwise you get nothing... (Been caught out by
this myself).

James