[Info-vax] Locally mount vms volumes in Linux

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

gregor.oelze wrote 2011-02-28 11:51:
> On 26 Feb., 17:21, Henry Crun<m... at rechtman.com>  wrote:
>> On 26/02/11 14:17, Ulrich Bellgardt wrote:
>>
>>> On 26.02.2011 11:49, gregor.oelze wrote:
>>
>>>> I was able to access a terminal port via telnet. There is an option in
>>>> simh to enable a
>>>> telnet-server which connects to a seriel port on the system(?).
>>
>>>> There is a version of kermit installed in the vms 5.x system which was
>>>> set in server
>>>> mode. Then, on the ubuntu host i could start ckermit, connecting via
>>>> the telnet
>>>> command - but it was not able to establish a connection. Afaik, this
>>>> is just possible
>>>> with an ethernet based - telnet connection. Or was this just a failed
>>>> configured setup?
>>
>>> What exactly did you try to establish a connection, and how did this
>>> fail?
>>> I have just verified that I can start ckermit on my Ubuntu box, connect
>>> this using telnet to the emulated Vax (simh is running on this ubuntu
>>> box), start kermit on the simh Vax, set this kermit to server mode,
>>> then switch back to the ubuntu ckermit and transfer a file using the
>>> "get" command. The opposite direction, move something with the "send"
>>> command to the emulated vax fails: it starts the transfer but
>>> eventually hangs, without further error message, and no file fragment
>>> shows up in the target directory.
>>
>>> But at least transferring some file(s) from the emulated vax to the
>>> host running simh should be possible.
>>
>>> The only non-default setup bit I used to establish the connection was
>>
>>> C-Kermit>set telnet Wait-for-negotiations off
>>
>>> but then
>>
>>> C-Kermit>telnet 0 15000
>>
>>> did the trick. (I have simh configured in the way that it listens on
>>> TCP port 15000)
>>
>>> -Uli
>>
>> I think the OP couldn't start TCP/IP due to a license prob, therefore no success
>> with telnet
>> ... or I may just be having a senior moment.... again.
>>
>> --
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>
> I changed the firmware-file from vax-server to microvax. Now the
> license error is not
> appearing anymore - but the TCPWare Problem still occurs.

Probably time to refresh us on what the "TCPWare problem" problem was/is.
To much in this thread to try to find it...
So give us a fresh copy of the rellevant output.

 > The purpose of the simulated machine is to develop programs for
 > a testing appliance called genrad - which is running in the same-lab.
 > Once compiled the programs were transfered to the genrad system via ftp.

Now, is there any commercial value involved in this ?
Why not get a professional solution/help to solve your problems ?




>
> best regards
> Gregor Oelze