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By the way, these folks had never heard of a System i, so I got to put on my
"evangelist" hat.

Apparently, Bill Gates has created a new species, as the folks to whom I
spoke twice said "We are Windows people".

:-))

Paul Nelson
Cell 708-670-6978
Office 512-392-2577
nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx


-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Paul Nelson
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 4:43 PM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: SSL FTP question---Update

Well, after several days, and a discussion with the folks who own the target
system, I got a certificate from them, imported it, declared it to be
trusted, and made a connection that permitted me to put a file onto their
machine.

The kicker is that these folks had purchased a third party package from
Rhino http://www.rhinosoft.com/ and had no idea how to export a
certificate. They claimed that they were under the impression that this
would be unnecessary.

I politely suggested that they contact their software vendor about this
issue. About 45 minutes later, I received the certificate via email. :-))


Paul Nelson
Cell 708-670-6978
Office 512-392-2577
nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx


-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Scott Klement
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 1:36 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: SSL FTP question

Hi Paul,

The error message you're receiving is stating that your FTP client on
your machine doesn't trust the server it's connecting to.

However, the quote you posted (if I'm interpreting it correctly, since I
don't know exactly who is speaking in the quote) is the opposite: It's
discussing what's required for the server to trust you.

In short, your current problem is that you don't trust the server.
That's an error on your side, and you need to tell your application to
trust the server by installing & trusting the server's CA certificate.


Paul Nelson wrote:
It makes perfect sense, but the server folks told my client that any
public certificate could be used.

Her quote:
"I have asked them for the certificate but they told me I could use
any public certificate. I am sending the file using a pc FTP
application and it works. But, I want to send the file directly from
the iSeries."

I must be missing something here.


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