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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Anonymous ftp's
Message-ID: <8802@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 30 Oct 88 04:03:43 GMT
References: <71@dsoft.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <71@dsoft.UUCP> sauron@dsoft.UUCP (Ron Stanions) writes:
>Well, the question is simple.  how do you use an anonymous ftp?  Am I
>supposed to call these machines directly and log in under a guest
>account, call in through uucp to an anonymous uucp account, or is it
>something that I can do by way of requesting via uucp links from my own
>machine, to have their machine send me the sources I want?

Unless you're on a real network (using the DoD Internet protocols
TCP/IP, etc.) you probably don't have the ability to access files via
FTP.  Anonymous FTP is simply FTP where you supply "anonymous" as
your user name and something like your name@site as an unchecked
password when connecting to the site in question.  Normally you have
restricted file access for an anonymous FTP connection, for example
a UNIX host might use chroot to keep you from exploring outside the
set of files being made available for anonymous FTP.

Doug Comer has a good book out on the details of internetworking.