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From: lipa@polya.Stanford.EDU (William J. Lipa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: ftp from a VMS system - how??
Message-ID: <10656@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 17 Jul 89 01:43:22 GMT
References: <851@tekno.chalmers.se>
Sender: William J. Lipa <lipa@Polya.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: lipa@Polya.Stanford.EDU (William J. Lipa)
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In article <851@tekno.chalmers.se> d83_sven_a@tekno.chalmers.se (Sven (Sciz) Axelsson) writes:
>I do "ftp (some number)" and then "login" at the "FTP> " prompt. Then
>the system asks for user_name and user_acct (or something similar), and
>no matter what combinations of "ftp" and "anonymous" or whatever I type
>the result is always "Access denied" or a similar message. What am I
>doing wrong??

I don't know if you are trying to FTP to sumex, but other people have had the
same problem so I thought I'd post one possible solution. Sumex requires that
the account "anonymous" be in lower case letters. Your FTP software may be
converting the "anonymous" you type into ANONYMOUS, which is an unknown account
at sumex.

Try enclosing 'anonymous' in quotes, as here.

Bill Lipa
Info-Mac