Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!rpi!usenet From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk Subject: Re: WHERE CAN I FTP MACTCP ? Message-ID: Date: 10 Jun 91 16:24:06 GMT References: <30788@hydra.gatech.EDU> Lines: 22 Nntp-Posting-Host: eclipse.its.rpi.edu In article <30788@hydra.gatech.EDU> ce1zzes@prism.gatech.EDU (Eric Sheppard) writes: > I have MacTCP installed on one of our machines, and we are using NCSA's > Telnet program which was designed for MacTCP. Where is their FTP program? > With NCSA2.2 Telnet, we could start an FTP session on the remote machine > and transfer files back to the Mac. With this newer TCP version, you have > to have a name/password file installed. Damn annoying and inconvenient, > it is! We can no longer FTP _in_, as well as out. Where is the FTP? The requirement for a name/password file is an option in the configuration file. You can turn it off if you don't want to bother with accounts and passwords. If you got the full distribution, it should have included a program called telpass, which sets up the name/password file. It's pretty easy to use, and shouldn't take you more than 5 minutes to setup 1 account with it's password. You can then tell everyone you know about that account & password, and you'll still be slightly safer than running without any accounting setup at all. - - - - - - - - Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@rpi.edu or gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu ITS Systems Programmer (handles NeXT-type mail) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA