[Info-vax] TCPWARE FTP client to Unix server issue, I think...

[Richard Whalen]

On Sunday, January 4, 2015 5:35:07 PM UTC-5, instruc... at gmail.com wrote:
> I don't have a lot of detailed information at the moment but I'll get it (need to reinstall tcpware) but was wondering if anybody had any obvious answers that I missed. 
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> I have a FreeBSD file server running pure-ftpd that I can connect to with every client I've tried, from the built in OS/2 ftp client, Windows' built in FTP client and all sorts of other strange or dead platforms. With UCX/HP TCPIP I've never had any issues issues connecting to it, but when I tired tcpware I could log in, but when trying to do a dir or ls or any other remote operation I got bad return codes and nothing works. If I remember correctly, there was something in my server side logs about it not liking extended passive mode (I tired active ftp as well) even though I'm fairly sure EPSV has worked with other clients without any issues. 
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> Is this a common problem connecting to UNIX servers, some configuration change I need to make on one side or the other? I looked through the docs and it seems like it should "just work."
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> I'm just a VMS hobbyist with some old vaxstations and ZX6000's I've acquired. I'd like to get more adept with the platform and maybe make it a job skill. Right now I mostly work with the BSDs and Windows(ugh). I'm new in the group and would like to get more involved with the community. I was born slightly after when Cutler moved to Microsoft, so I'd like to be able to reap the benefits of the VMS community's long term collective experience. 
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> Thanks everybody.
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> If nobody has any clue whats going on, I'll try it again and get some more detailed information. 
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> Bill S.

I'm not sure of the date, but TCPware has supported EPSV (and EPRT) for more than 5 years.  The TCPware FTP server should be leaving SYS$LOGIN:FTPSERVER_DTP.LOG around and that would show what commands there were problems with.