Re: FTP Question, Urgent

[rob@xxxxxxxxx]

My reply is assuming the PC is running NT.

Granted, I am running short of time and I'll be out of the office for a few
days.  Here is a start.

1)  Start,  Settings, Control Panel, Services, Client Access Express Remote
Command, Start, maybe change to Automatic.
2)  Start, Settings, Control Panel, Client Access, Incoming Remote Command
3)  From the 400,
RUNRMTCMD  CMD('C:\PVC4XX\UPLOAD.BAT') +
             RMTLOCNAME(&REMOTE *IP) RMTUSER(&USER) +
             RMTPWD(&PASSWORD)
where &USER and &PASSWORD are NT valid user names and passwords.



Rob Berendt

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Hey Rob.

Is there anything that needs to be setup in order to run the RUNRMTCMD from
AS400??.

I get the following message after i run the RUNRMTCMD.....

"A remote host refused an attempted connect operation.
Command did not complete successfully. "

Please advice.

Thanks.
Reddy





rob@dekko.com@midrange.com on 04/10/2001 05:32:16 PM

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Warning, Danger.  Note that he qualified his statement with 'at least it
better not'.  Several of the trade magazines have written up how to use
commands like RUNRMTCMD to execute commands on a PC.  There is a ?daemon?
that Client/Access will load on the PC ftp server that you can use to
execute a remote command using ftp.  We do this in production.  I do not
know if there would be a remote command daemon without Client Access. And
yes, just to confirm, our 400 starts up processes on the PC and this is
from a batch job and NOT from using STRPCCMD.  You do need a PC login.  And
I think the Client access daemon can be started or stopped at will to
control access.

Rob Berendt

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On Tue, 10 Apr 2001 RReddy@medicalartspress.com wrote:

> Is there a way i can call a remote EXE file from AS400 FTP.??.

Short answer: no

Long answer:

> 1.) Send a file from AS400 to the Remote WinNT server.

easy

> 2.) Call a EXE program on the NT server.

Can't be done using ftp client (at least it better not - think of the
security implications - upload crackme.exe, run crackme.exe)

We did something which accomplishes the same task on UNIX.  We added a
cron job to check the upload directory for a new file (the AS/400 would
send this new file every so often).  If the file was found the cron job
would run a program using the file as input.  A result file was then
placed in the download directory for the AS/400 to retrieve.

> 3.) After the EXE program is done running, I need to check for an error
> file ( with name ERRFIL.txt )

See above

> 4.) If the file exists  then i need to get this error file back to AS400.

easy

> Please suggest any ideas. ( please note i am planning to this process
from
> AS400 FTP process only )

So while you can't run remote programs using an ftp client, you can set up
the remote host to look for files you are sending it and then act on those
files.

James Rich
james@eaerich.com




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