[Info-vax] TCP/IP on OpenVMS V8.4-L2

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2022-07-29 19:38:17 +0000, Single Stage to Orbit said:

> On Thu, 2022-07-28 at 19:58 -0400, Dave Froble wrote:
>>  Any resources to point me in the right direction?
>> 
>> Set up a gateway IP address, pointing to your router.  I believe it is 
>> option 3 in the core settings.  It's been a while.
> 
> All is good. I can use SSH to access OpenVMS and it works well. The 
> only issue is that using scp to copy files over to it from Linux 
> doesn't work.

"Doesn't work" isn't an error code listed in HELP /MESSAGE, or in the 
TCP/IP Services documentation. Put slightly differently, your ability 
to ask a technical question is lacking—asking a question is harder than 
it initially seems, and takes some time and thought and skill to become 
good at that. In general? Details help. Commands used, error messaged 
received, versions of relevant tools in use, etc.

> I then installed FTP server (I know, I really shouldn't) but even 
> though I could FTP in and list directory contents, uploading files 
> hangs. Most vexing.

FTP is older than IP, completely and utterly and catastrophically 
insecure, and its network socket connection patterns are fundamentally 
incompatible with modern network security—absent firewalls capable of 
and configured for sniffing FTP traffic.

I'm going to take another guess here about the cause of this problem, 
and that the required network services have yet to be enabled. This as 
was mentioned in my previous reply. These network clients and these 
network servers are controlled in the previously-references 
TCPIP$CONFIG configuration tool. The TCP/IP Services documentation can 
help understand the rather different world that is OpenVMS, and also 
better understand its increasingly-unique separately-installed 
networking support.

https://docs.vmssoftware.com

Which of those documents particularly? Concepts and Planning, and 
Installation and Configuration.


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