[Info-vax] Why would FTP not work from my PC to my PA ?

[Hans Vlems]

On 14 apr, 19:49, DTL <didier.mora... at gmail.com> wrote:
> I restarted my Personal Alpha emulator, and did upgrade from 7.1 to 8.3
> I installed TCPIP and double checked my config, all seems fine
> I can get out, I just did some PHONE from within EISNER :-) and I can FTP on myself (both client and server enabled)
> But I cannot FTP from my PC to the Alpha...
> The Ping is fine, but no answer from port 23.
>
> How come?
> Thanks
>
> Didier

Didier,
something similar happened to me. There was a logical name defined
(TCPIP$FTP_SERVER_ANNOUNCE) and it points to a text file.
The text file didn't exist on that system so FTP just didn't work.
Hans