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

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In article <64bbd226-9ec9-4ef9-b4bc-9571fd9a0324 at l4g2000vbt.googlegroups.com>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Didier_Trarieux=2DLumi=E8re?= <d.trarieux.lumiere at gmail.com> writes:
>On 14 avr, 23:00, Steven Schweda <sms.antin... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > [...] double checked my config, all seems fine
>>
>> =A0 =A0What, exactly, does that tell a non-psychic like me?
>>
>> > [...] But I cannot FTP from my PC to the Alpha...
>>
>> =A0 =A0"I cannot" is not a useful problem description. =A0It does
>> not say what you did. =A0It does not say what happened when you
>> did it. =A0As usual, showing actual commands with their actual
>> output (like, say, error messages) can be more helpful than
>> vague descriptions or interpretations.
>>
>> > How come?
>>
>> =A0 =A0How many psychics do you think follow this forum?
>
>Man, you should smoke less carpet. You are on comp.os.vms here :-)
>We are not "psychic" people, we are geeks...

Yeah, there are toxic by-products of combustion when you burn those
synthetic fibers! :)


>"double check" for a VMS expert (that I used to be since 1982) means
>what it means (IVP, local tests, checking for errors in logs etc.)
>(need a translation for "IVP" ? :-)
>
>"I cannot" means that "je ne peux pas" (in English "I can not", or
>better "I cannot", or more usually "I can't")
>Not being able to FTP from one machine/computer/system/box/whatever
>non-psychic name you like) means that the file transfert protocol
>program (aka FTP) does not transfer anything (means: transfers
>nothing, niet, nitchevo, No Way Jos=E9)
>
>But, as far as "actual output (like, say, error messages)" is
>concerned, sorry, I must confess that I forgot them :-(.
>
>Here is the output of the "no FTP result" on the PC side:
>
>[begin screen snapshot]
>
>[end screen snapshot]
>
>and here is below the error message I get from the PC:
>
>[begin error message text]
>
>[end message text]
>
>Buddy, what *else* could I post to be less "psychic" ?
>
>Didier
>(you made my day !...)

Didier, did you try simple TELNET to port 21 to see if you're even able
to contact the server???

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