[Info-vax] FTP sesion against a vms server fails

[Neil Rieck]

On Aug 5, 10:43 am, koeh... at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob
Koehler) wrote:
> In article <h5bac7$jh... at localhost.localdomain>, "Ragid" <ra... at gimail.com> writes:
> > When I open an ftp sesion from a Windows PC to a vms machine it fails. It is
> > stack endlessly.
> > Trying to work against another VMS machine brings the same result.
> > Other protcols like telnet , ping work fine.
> > Trying to open a sesion from another VMS machine works fine.
> > Can someone help please?
>
>    Most likely your FTP client is doing something not really covered
>    by the RFP (or whatever they call 'em now) for FTP.  Usually this
>    involves some preconceived notion of what a filename string contains,
>    or what will be returned for "human readable" formats.
>
>    Filezilla is a GUI based FTP client for Windows that seems to work
>    correctly with VMS.  The MS command line ftp that ships with Windows
>    works, too.  Filezilla sftp and PuTTY psftp work, also, when you
>    need sftp instead of ftp.
>
>    Which Windows client are you using?

Don't forget FireFTP which is the free plugin for Firefox. The GUI
looks like WS-FTP from Ipswitch

NSR