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  • Subject: RE: FTP from PC to AS400
  • From: Scott Klement <klemscot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 12:05:07 -0500 (CDT)


Have you tried opening up an MS-DOS window, and typing ftp at the DOS
prompt?  Its been awhile since I've used NT, but I seem to (vaguely) 
recall that this worked...



On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Bale, Dan wrote:

> On this subject...  In a previous shop (Windows 95), I was able to use FTP
> on the PC side to put / get files to / from the AS/400.  I used the Run
> command from the Start menu, just entered FTP and I'd get a DOS-like,
> character based entry screen, much like the one you get when you run FTP on
> the AS/400.  
> 
> My new shop uses Windows NT 4.0 (my first experience with this) and trying
> to run FTP from the PC side triggers MS Internet Explorer and brings up a
> error window in the browser window that states: "Internet Explorer cannot
> open the internet site ftp://ftp/.  The site was not found.  Make sure the
> address is correct and try again."
> 
> What am I missing here?  On the Run command line, I have tried both just
> "FTP" and "FTP as400hostname" with the same results.  Is this solvable by
> installing & using something like WARFTP like someone else mentioned here
> yesterday?
> 
> Oh, and I have never figured out how to use FTP on the AS/400 to send / get
> files to / from the PC.  What do you use for a system name or address?  How
> do you find that out?
> 
> TIA,
> Dan Bale
> 

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