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General Discussion / vPilot saying incorrect CID/Password - Help!
« on: April 25, 2020, 03:37:00 AM »
Hello Everyone,
Being a long time member of VATSIM, but inactive for a few years, I had to upgrade a few things before getting back online and vPilot was one of them. Like pulling very long teeth!
Anyway, after updating dot net framework to 4.2.7 and dealing with the certificates error, I got vPilot 2 installed for a host and remote setup. Went through all the settings, got my VATSIM email with my username & password again too be sure, then entered that into the vPilot host and remote. Sadly, I kept getting the brief connect/disconnect error, even though I typed in my credentials several times.
Furthermore, I could log into VATSIM through the website and such, but not through vPilot no matter what. So, using notepad I looked at the vPilotConfig.xml file located in the C:\Users\your computers name\AppData\Local\vPilot and behold, found the error. The password shown was not what I typed in repeatedly, instead it was a mix of characters pulled out of the air somewhere.
Thus, I replaced the password with mine and saved the xml file, and then tried vPilot Host. It connected without anymore issues!!! HOORAY!
Maybe, this is a well know problem by now, but here I am in 2020 commenting on a 2016 forum post and yet, this still exists. For anyone having this happen, check your vpilotconfig.xml on the host computer before you go crazy like I did...lol!
John
Being a long time member of VATSIM, but inactive for a few years, I had to upgrade a few things before getting back online and vPilot was one of them. Like pulling very long teeth!
Anyway, after updating dot net framework to 4.2.7 and dealing with the certificates error, I got vPilot 2 installed for a host and remote setup. Went through all the settings, got my VATSIM email with my username & password again too be sure, then entered that into the vPilot host and remote. Sadly, I kept getting the brief connect/disconnect error, even though I typed in my credentials several times.
Furthermore, I could log into VATSIM through the website and such, but not through vPilot no matter what. So, using notepad I looked at the vPilotConfig.xml file located in the C:\Users\your computers name\AppData\Local\vPilot and behold, found the error. The password shown was not what I typed in repeatedly, instead it was a mix of characters pulled out of the air somewhere.
Thus, I replaced the password with mine and saved the xml file, and then tried vPilot Host. It connected without anymore issues!!! HOORAY!
Maybe, this is a well know problem by now, but here I am in 2020 commenting on a 2016 forum post and yet, this still exists. For anyone having this happen, check your vpilotconfig.xml on the host computer before you go crazy like I did...lol!
John