Re: socket pc

[Jim Langston <jimlangston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Steve,

First thing you want to do is to find out if it's the PC or the AS/400 that's 
causing
the problem.  From the PC you are trying to connect to the AS/400 from:

[Start][Run]telnet 172.xx.y.z 3005
press enter.  (you enter the telnet line in the run box).
Telnet window should come up.  If it connects you should see the server sitting
in the top/left hand corner.  If your AS/400 sends any data on connection you
should see that.
If it is not connecting you will get a windows error dialog saying it couldn't 
connect
and why.
So now you should know which end is broken, the AS/400 or the PC.

Telnet can be used to connect to any port, not just telnet ports, and is great 
for testing.
If you are adventurous and read really fast you can actually see web pages with 
it,
though the syntax for the commands is a pain.

Incidently, it is perfect safe to give an 172.x.x.x number, that range is local 
to your
network and can't be reached from the internet.

HTH,

Regards,

Jim Langston

Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 20:01:44 -0400
From: "srichter " <srichter@mail.autocoder.com>
Subject: [none]

Hello all,

I am attempting to socket from a win95 pc to an as400. Both systems are on the 
same local ethernet lan. Both behind the
firewall.
When I run connect( ) on the pc, a "WSAECONNREFUSED" ( the attempt to connect 
was forcefully rejected ) error code is
returned.

My "Listen" pgm is running on the as400.  It was able to rcv data on a loopback 
test, so I am reasonably sure it is coded
correctly.

Do I have to enable anything on the 400 or pc before socketing from one system 
to the other?  Any ideas?  Why the
WSAECONNREFUSED error?

Does the 400 log socket connection attempts that are refused?

Thanks,
Steve Richter

Here is the code.  First the c code on the pc, then the rpg ile as400 code.

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