I have found it impossible to ftp from moon.cecer.army.mil from PCs, although
there is no problem from Workstations. My local support people conjecture that
this is because our PCs are not DNS registered, while the workstations are. This
means that if moon.cecer.army.mil attempts to check on the existence of the PC
systems, it can't find them in the DNS system, and refuses to connect to them,
for security reasons.
Can someone confirm or deny this hypothesis?
Paul Cooper
Hi
On Fri, 9 Sep 1994 aprc@mail.nerc-bas.ac.uk wrote:
I have found it impossible to ftp from moon.cecer.army.mil from PCs, although
there is no problem from Workstations. My local support people conjecture that
this is because our PCs are not DNS registered, while the workstations are. This
means that if moon.cecer.army.mil attempts to check on the existence of the PC
systems, it can't find them in the DNS system, and refuses to connect to them,
for security reasons.Can someone confirm or deny this hypothesis?
Well it depends what the real problem is. You don' get connected or is he
denying your access eventhough the port is opened. I he refuses indeed to
open the port that is indeed the reason. Can you make with your pc a
telnet session on an external workstation outside your local network
?
If not I confirm your problem and than you have to ftp over
the workstations if they are connected with the pc. Inform me about it,
maybe you can save by this needless searching!
Bart
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In article <1453.9409090812@bsamaga.nerc-bas.ac.uk>,
aprc@mail.nerc-bas.ac.uk wrote:
I have found it impossible to ftp from moon.cecer.army.mil from PCs, although
there is no problem from Workstations. My local support people conjecture that
this is because our PCs are not DNS registered, while the workstations are. This
means that if moon.cecer.army.mil attempts to check on the existence of the PC
systems, it can't find them in the DNS system, and refuses to connect to them,
for security reasons.Can someone confirm or deny this hypothesis?
Paul Cooper
I realize this problem has been solved, but just wanted to add that I have
realized that it is impossible to "get" files that have more than one "."
in them onto a PC (i.e. something like d.rast is fine but not s.surf.tps).
If I need something on a PC I ftp it to our unix system, then change the
name so that the PC can handle it.
Jane Rossing
i can get into moon from my PC but have had problems downloading. i have
no problem listing files and the like, but when i try to download it's
no go. Don't know if the problem lies with me, the machine, or some of
both... As stated earlier, make sure you use your email address as your
password.