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Eitan Ram
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Auto ftp and vms

Hi all.

We have ftp product  "Auto ftp manager" version 5.2.4 installed on one of our windows server.

We are trying to configure this product to communicate with vms server.

The user's profile created has "/" as default directory.

Even when I changed user's profile to default directory of vms user the ftp session faile with

the message "file specification error".

Anyone knows how to  configure this product ?

Thank you.

Eitan Ram.

 

 

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Ruslan R. Laishev
Super Advisor

Re: Auto ftp and vms

Hi!

 

Take a look into the .LOG file in the home directory of the OpenVMS user.

Eitan Ram
Advisor

Re: Auto ftp and vms

Hi.

 

No errors in TCPIP$FTP_SERVER.LOG in home directory of user on vms server.

The error 550 is returned when the Autoftp connecting to vms - the connection established by then it tried to set def to "/".

 

Eitan.

Ruslan R. Laishev
Super Advisor

Re: Auto ftp and vms

Ok. Can you capture with TCPDUMP or WireShark  a data exchange between client and server over TCP?

abrsvc
Respected Contributor

Re: Auto ftp and vms

I am no tfamiliar with the product listed here, but the "current" directory can be referenced as "[]" under OpenVMS rather than "/". Can you change the string from the "/" to "[]"?

Dan
Steven Schweda
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Re: Auto ftp and vms

 
Eitan Ram
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Re: Auto ftp and vms

I changed the user's profile to [] - The same error.

 

[14:51:57] [10.10.10.23]  Connecting to FTP server.
[14:51:57] [10.10.10.23] [Response]  220 abc.aaa FTP Server (Version 5.6) Ready.
[14:51:57] [10.10.10.23] [Command]  USER p_alex
[14:51:57] [10.10.10.23] [Response]  331 Username p_alex requires a Password
[14:51:57] [10.10.10.23] [Command] PASS (hidden)
[14:51:57] [10.10.10.23] [Response]  230 User logged in.
[14:51:57] [10.10.10.23] [Command]  PWD
[14:51:57] [10.10.10.23] [Response] [ALEX]" is current directory.
[14:51:57] [10.10.10.23] [Command]  TYPE I
[14:51:57] [10.10.10.23] [Response]  200 TYPE set to IMAGE.
[14:51:57] [10.10.10.23] [Command]  SYST
[14:51:57] [10.10.10.23] [Response]  200 VMS OpenVMS V8.3 on node abc.aaa
[14:51:57] [10.10.10.23] [Command]  PASV
[14:51:57] [10.10.10.23] [Response]  227 Entering Passive Mode (1,1,1,1,194,223)
[14:51:57] [10.10.10.23] [Command]  FEAT
[14:51:57] [10.10.10.23] [Response]  502 FEAT is unimplemented.
[14:51:57] [10.10.10.23] [Command]  PWD
[14:51:57] [10.10.10.23] [Response] [ALEX]" is current directory.
[14:52:12] [10.10.10.23] [Command]  PWD
[14:52:12] [10.10.10.23] [Response] [ALEX]" is current directory.
[14:52:12] [10.10.10.23] [Command] [ALEX]/
[14:52:12] [10.10.10.23] [Status] [ALEX]/.
[14:52:12] [10.10.10.23] [Status]  550 file specification syntax error
[14:52:12] [10.10.10.23] [Status] Failed: FTP protocol error. 550 file specification syntax error.
[14:52:12] [10.10.10.23] [Command]  TYPE A
[14:52:12] [10.10.10.23] [Response]  200 TYPE set to ASCII.
[14:52:12] [10.10.10.23] [Command]  PWD
[14:52:12] [10.10.10.23] [Response] [ALEX]" is current directory.
[14:52:12] [10.10.10.23] [Command] [ALEX]/
[14:52:12] [10.10.10.23] [Status] [ALEX]/.
[14:52:12] [10.10.10.23] [Status]  550 file specification syntax error

 

 

Steven Schweda
Honored Contributor

Re: Auto ftp and vms

 
Brad McCusker
Respected Contributor

Re: Auto ftp and vms

This is the problem line:

 

[14:52:12] [10.10.10.23] [Command] [ALEX]/

 

"[ALEX]/" is not a valid VMS file specification.  You need to figure out how to have your client stop using "/" in the file specifications.  For that, I believe you will need to contact the vendor for your ftp client.

 

Best Regards,

 

Brad McCusker

Software Concepts International

www.sciinc.com

Brad McCusker
Software Concepts International
Eitan Ram
Advisor

Re: Auto ftp and vms

 

Thank you all for your replies.

 

We already submitted a question to Autoftp manager support.

It seeems that the product is designed to work on unix style file system or Windows.

 

Eitan.