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ftp osr5 internet explorer

From: "Brian K. White" <brian@aljex.com>
Subject: Re: Commands for transferring files VIA Telnet
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 00:16:48 -0400
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On Mon, 09 Jun 2003 22:27:42 +0000, Bill Vermillion wrote:

> In article <ve9pfbnip0qk95@corp.supernews.com>, MikeM <MikeM@nunya.com>
> wrote:
>>Scott McMillan wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 11:33:29 -0700, "MikeM" <MikeM@nunya.com> wrote:
> 
>>>>> I used to know this and had it written down, but how to I send files
>>>>> to and receive files from a SCO OpenServer 5xx connected on the same
>>>>> network to and from my XP PC? It's been a year since I needed to do
>>>>> this and well I just forgot how.
> 
>>>> I'd use FTP myself - WS_FTP LE has always worked well for me:
>>>> http://www.ipswitch.com/downloads/index.html.
> 
>>>> You *can* transfer files through 3rd party emulation packages, but
>>>> AFAIK there's no 'generic' transfer via Telnet.
> 
>>But I would have to set up the ftp server in SCO and move the files to
>>the correct directory and all that. The way I did it before was something
>>like Z-modem or some such thing. Will keep looking for that. Thanks for
>>the reply though.
> 
> No you wouldn't.  You can leave the files where they are. It is anonymous
> ftp that requires the files to be in specific places.
> 
> If you ftp with a normal account and password you can ftp any file you
> have read access for.   Just start the ftpd daemon on 5.x and go for it.
> 
> And if you set   'prompt off'   you can then type   'mget *' and everthing
> in that directory will move to your directory.

I may be cursed for mentioning it, but you can even use internet explorer.
Just open up internet explorer and in the address bar type in:
   ftp://user:passwrd@192.168.0.100/../../
to start in /

or
   ftp://joey:passwrd@192.168.0.100/
to start in /usr/joey

or to start in some particular directory outside your home dir, add the
../../ followed by the path, like, for /tmp use:
   ftp://user:passwrd@192.168.0.100/../../tmp

or you could install FileZilla. nice gui ftp client, easier to use for
repetative tasks than plain ftp or internet explorer because you can
configure it to always start in a particular directory on both your pc and
the server, and it can save your username & password, and it's free.

Like others have already said, you don't have to set anything up on the
server. the ftp server is almost certainly running whether you ever knew
it or used it or not. But like they also said, it's configured by default
to only allow normal authenticated logins requiring a valid username and
password, exactly like telnet. no anonymous. But, since you are logging in
as a real user, it means you have access to the whole filesystem, not some
special ftp server tree like the web server has.

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