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

[John Wallace]

On Apr 15, 10:58 am, Didier Trarieux-Lumière
<d.trarieux.lumi... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 14 avr, 23:00, Steven Schweda <sms.antin... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > [...] double checked my config, all seems fine
>
> >    What, exactly, does that tell a non-psychic like me?
>
> > > [...] But I cannot FTP from my PC to the Alpha...
>
> >    "I cannot" is not a useful problem description.  It does
> > not say what you did.  It does not say what happened when you
> > did it.  As usual, showing actual commands with their actual
> > output (like, say, error messages) can be more helpful than
> > vague descriptions or interpretations.
>
> > > How come?
>
> >    How 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...
>
> "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 José)
>
> 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 !...)

[giving Steve a break]

You could try posting

1) exact details of the commands you invoked, ideally by text cut
+paste (links screenshots on Flickr etc have been used but are less
convenient than text right here :))
2) vague details of what you expected to result from those commands
3) exact details of what actually resulted from those commands,
ideally by text cut+paste

In this particular case in the absence of success by other routes you
could also think about packet capturing the relevant IP traffic at
each end and posting that (or a link to it) but I guess that might not
require the kind of psychic skills you seem to want from the
audience...