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From: Klensin@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA (John C Klensin)
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Subject: Excelan TCP/IP
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Date: Tue, 20-Jan-87 08:23:00 EST
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Aha.  We have been struggling with that problem since mid-fall, and
finally solved it -- with superhuman help from Excelan -- this last
weekend.  Problem is that they made a "feature" with this release of the
FTP server such that an FTP login requires access to use "Network"
logins, even if you are not otherwise using DECNet (which is the only
other thing that uses that access class).

So, go into AUTHORIZE and, for every account for which you are having
the problem,
  MODIFY userid  /NETWORK
 and everything will be in great shape.

Excelan's reasoning as to why they are checking this is logical,
incidentally, even it is causes some nasty surprises (especially nasty
for those of us who were running the previous version of their software,
which was completely insensitive to the problem).  They've told us that
the "production" version of the software (you forgot to mention that you
are running a beta version) will have this feature noted in the
documentation in large and prominent letters.
    John Klensin, MIT