3rd party SFTP Client and OpenVMS Server CWD problem

[otad21]

Hello Hoff,

Thank you!  Finally some advice for things I could test (or at least get someone from IT more familiar with OpenVMS to check for me).

I appreciate your patience.  I could not reveal the 3rd party software as I mentioned due to contractual reasons.

The reason I need to continue to use it is that my organization is evaluating it with intention to standarize on it, but the vendor is extremely adament that it is not their problem.

They insisted that (as you mentioned above) there is nothing special to do to CD to a directory on a different disk.

What I needed to know is: what are the possible issues that could prevent the SFTP client (or now I think 'envrironment' is a better choice of words) from accessing a directory that SSH can.

You have now provided me with leads that I can follow.. 

Again... Thank you!

[Duncan Morris]

What is the patch level of your OpenVMS TCPIP stack?

Can you let us see the result of $ TCPIP SHOW VERSION ?

Around here I get:

$ tcpip show ver

  HP TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS Alpha Version V5.7 - ECO 2
  on an AlphaServer 400 4/166 running OpenVMS V8.4

V5.5 had rather a lot of bugs with the SSH/SFTP code, and you may well have run into one of them.

For example, see this note from the ECO2 release notes (I do not have any later ones to check).

19-Jun-2006     Alpha and IA64

        Problem:

        "cd" to a logical name when coming from another operating system
        stopped working.

        Deliverables:

        All SSH images

        Reference:

        PTR 75-109-1636
        TCPIP_BUGS Note 3470

Duncan