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From: thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: FTP stuff (help!)
Message-ID: <39097@cup.portal.com>
Date: 10 Feb 91 14:21:34 GMT
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hyy94@campus.swarthmore.edu in <4NTXSAD@cs.swarthmore.edu> writes:

	I recently tried to access the ftp site ab20.larc.nasa.gov and when it
	asked me for a username, I didn't know what to do.  I tried
	'anonymous' and 'newuser' as well as 'guest' apparently I need to
	register for an account.  Is this correct?  If so, how do I do it?
	[...]

Most sites want to see "ftp" as the anonymous login for ftp, and your username
as the password; some, such as simtel-20, want "anonymous" as the login name
and your username as the password.  The choice depends on what "ftpd" (or its
equivalent) is running on the specific system and I haven't found any way to
determine which in advance of an actual attempt.  The password entry for an
anonymous ftp login is simply copied to a logfile and does not imply any
required pre-registration.