No, I checked yesterday when I had this problem and the plain-text password setting is still in place on my machine. I'm also pretty sure the current error message is different than the plain-text password error. At 04:22 PM 8/25/2003, you wrote: >Wonder if the patches removed plain text password capability? > >On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 15:38, Chris Wolf wrote: > > None of us in my office on campus, running Windows XP, can access AFS via > > drive mapping anymore. I also got a call from a faculty member running > > Windows 2000 who was getting errors from an existing AFS mapping that he > > had been using for a long time. Since like everybody else we have applied > > numerous Windows service packs and patches recently, we have been wondering > > if something like a tightened security setting in one of them was causing > > the problem. --Chris ============================================== Chris Wolf Computer Service Manager Agricultural Economics [log in to unmask] Michigan State University 517 353-5017