Understanding the login procedure.

[Mystress]

There are two levels of security to this board: and two logins.

  The first, is the grey pop-up box you get asking for your FST member username and password, which is the same as you use to access the lessons and the old tea room. It is the username and password you chose when you registered as an FST member.  This tea room area is for FST members only.

  This level of security, is to exclude the general public from accessing the tearoom area, even as guests.  You will see this pop-up every time you visit the board, as a user or a guest, just as you see it everytime you visit the FST lessons.  It is the same level of security.
  If you are reading this, you passed!

  The second level, is separate:  the login for the new tea room board.  Login with the username and password you got in an email Sun June 24 2007,  if you had posted to the old board previously. Your username was based on how you signed your posts in the old tea room, and your password was generated randomly. Copy and paste the login from the email, instead of typing it, and be sure not to copy extra spaces. 

  Login once, and the board will remember you for next time, similar to how paypal knows your email address each time you visit: a cookie file.  However, please click on "profile" and change your password to one that is easier for you to remember.  Make your new password the same as your FST password, if you wish.  The board will ask for the password from the email again, to make the profile changes.  In your profile settings, you can also select or upload an avatar image, choose to hide your email, and customize your "screen appearance" in many ways.

  You can tell if you are logged in because the board will say hello to you by name at the top. If you are not logged in, it will say "hello guest."

  If you are still having trouble, email me and I can reset your tearoom board password for you.

  ***Please do not re-register yourself, if you are already registered!  Only register a new tea room board profile, if you haven't posted to the old tea room and wish to post or chat.

  OK:
1.) Grey pop-up box: FST member username and password. (will come up everytime you visit, and not let you see the board until you pass)

2.)  Blue box or embedded web page request: Tea room board password. (will mostly remember you after your first visit, except when you change your password or profile.)

   Thank you! Blessings...

[hollyberry]

Hi,

I apologise in advance if I'm blundering around like a bull in a china ship I've tried to read all the relevant FAQs around and about - but a website with as many rooms, wings, floors, houses, gatekeepers, attendants etc. is difficult to get an overview as to where you're supposed to be and in what order. Sorry again, but I'm an 'oldie' and whilst I've spent the past 20 years learning about software from a design point of view - I'm really pretty naff when it comes to 'chat' and P2P - I don't even really understand the concept - the technological sophistication of the thing just boggles my mind.

I am just worrying because somewhere in the site I stumbled into 'Flashchat' (relating to the tea room) and got a scary little bright red message stating:

Security alert!
install.php, or install_files folder are still present on your server. Please remove these files before continuing.

Well - as a new FST member I don't want to be doing anything to compromise the site - so can someone put my mind at rest, or give me instructions as to what to look for on my computer that might be a no no.

Muchly appreciated.......Hollyberry

[Mystress]

  Don't worry about it. I am still tweaking the chatroom and so I still need the installation files, but as the chat is behind two firewalls I am not concerned about anyone messing with it. .

[hollyberry]

Thanks very much for this info, good to know I can't mess anything up as I have plenty of other mess to sort out already - i.e. apologies I just remembered about not using italics in my posts - really sorry (I'm a typographer and graphic designer, on autopilot) will try to never do it again