RE: FTP from PC to AS400 -- RPG400-L

You are correct.  You need an FTP server on your NT box.
Also you are correct that if you ping by name it will return your IP address.
Damn the torpedo's, full speed ahead!





DBale@lear.com on 04/11/2000 05:28:18 PM
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Subject:        RE: FTP from PC to AS400

As you suggested, I did the Network Neighborhood thing.  Got the computer
name; went over to Protocols and selected TCP/IP but all the buttons,
including Properties, remained dimmed.

But I should be able to use FTP with the computer name, right?  

I just tried pinging with the computer name from the NT command prompt, got
four lines of:
    Reply from 11.1.25.26: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=128

Am I to assume that 11.1.25.26 is my IP address?

I also PINGed 11.1.25.26 from an AS/400 command line and got 5 lines of:
    PING reply n from 11.1.25.26 took 1 ms. 256 bytes. TTL 127.

However, when I tried connecting using FTP on the AS/400, I got the
following:
    Connecting to remote host 11.1.25.26 using port 21.

    Cannot connect to host 11.1.25.26 at address 11.1.25.26. Try again
later.
Was this because there is no FTP server loaded on the PC?

(BTW, 11.1.25.26 is not the real address that displayed; didn't know whether
that would invite the world to my PC or not, so I played it safe.)

- Dan Bale

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob Berendt [SMTP:rob@dekko.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 2:13 PM
> To:   RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      RE: FTP from PC to AS400
> 
> We are an NT shop.  I still get that DOS-like screen.  Although generally 
> I start MSDOS command program first and then start FTP.
> 
> On your last paragraph.  First you must have an ftp server loaded on the 
> PC.  NT comes with one.  It's just not loaded as the default.  
> To find out your PC network name/address do the following:
> Right click on Network Neighborhood
> Select Properties.  Your computer name should be your IP name.
> To get IP address then select Protocols
> Select TCP/IP and then Properties
> And there is your IP address.
> 
> Now try pinging your PC using either your computer name or the IP address.
> 
> If this works but FTP to the PC fails - get a FTP server.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> DBale@lear.com on 04/11/2000 12:46:41 PM
> Please respond to RPG400-L@midrange.com@Internet
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> Subject:      RE: FTP from PC to AS400
> 
> 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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