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From: nestor@NMS.HLS.COM (Nestor Fesas)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: RE: PC based FTP server
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Date: 10 Aug 90 20:26:09 GMT
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In his response to Michael Chang <nulspace@eng.umd.edu>,  Rod Troch
<njin!troch@rutgers.edu> writes:

>We have this ability (FTP server on a PC) using Sytek's licensed copy
>FTP software TCP/IP.  It is one of the many programs that come with
>it.  The ftp server even uses the standard unix encryption method for
>the password file.  a DOS SET command must be given before the server
>is started though, telling it that a password file exists.
>
>It works pretty good.
>
>Rod

Essentially,  Rod is correct.  However,  I would like to make a few 
corrections.  First,  we are no longer Sytek.  We are now Hughes LAN
Systems.  Second,  although passwords are in fact encrypted,  the
algorithm used is not the same as that used in UNIX - as pointed out
by James Van Bokkelen in his recent reply to Michael's e-mail. 
Finally,  Rod states that the DOS SET command must be used to inform
the FTPSRV program of the existance of a password file.  In fact, 
this step can be taken at boot time by placing a statement like the
following in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file of the computer in question:

    SET PFILE=C:\PROLINC\TCP\PASSWORD.FIL

Nestor