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From: d88-mbe@sm.luth.se (Michael Bergman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: telnet access to FTPD
Message-ID: <778@tau.sm.luth.se>
Date: 9 Mar 90 18:27:02 GMT
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Organization: University of Lulea, Sweden
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This question is probably best answered by someone with a good knowledge of
UN*X. Actually it might not belong in this group at all, but I decided I'll
take the risk...

OK, here we go...
As far as I can understand, the ftp program is a user interface to the
FTP-server of the foreign host. I't fixes the connections so that data can
be transferred (sockets and all that isn't my cup of tea really).
It's possible to access the FTP-server of a foreign host via telnet by
doing "telnet hostname 21", where 21 is the ftp-service port. You're then
thrown directly into the FTPD and can log in with USER anonymous and
PASS xxx@yyy.
Various commands are available, HELP shows them all.
However, even though you can eg issue the command LIST, no data connection
is established between the host and telnet(??), so nothing happens of course.
This means that you can't RETR(EIVE) files either.

The question is (although i suspect that the answer is NO):

Is it possible to call telnet from an Amiga, connect to a foreign host's
FTPD and have a proper connection set up so that data can be transferred
between the host and the Amiga? Or is it nessecary to have a real UN*X host
to do this?
(As I said before I fear that *nothing* of the above is possible, but my
philosophy here is you can never be sure...)

If anyone decides to post an answer to this, could you please EMAIL me a
copy of that posting? I dont't have time to read through news for a week
or so...  Thanx.

Mike

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