Networking a PC(xp) and a c3600 workstatioin

[Eric Bakken]

Can anyone give me some quick advice on what i'll have to do... i dont plan on having any other machines in the network...

[Torsten.]

What's your question in detail?

[Patrick Wallek · Accepted solution]

Assign both machines an IP address and connect them up via a cross-over LAN cable or to a small hub or switch.

Make sure you have TCP/IP installed on the WinXP machine.

[Eric Bakken]

sweet, now I suppose i need something special in order for me to transfer files between machines..

[Mel Burslan]

that something special is an ftp client on your windows xp machine. but if you are content with command line prompt and familiar with ftp commands, you can just launch a command prompt and run:

ftp unixmachinename

and provide your username and password when prompted.

or get something like WS_FTP from a freeware/shareware site.

[Alan Meyer_4]

you can

1. setup CIFS to share a unix filesystem to the windows machine

2. setup one to be an ftp server and use the ftp client to send files

3. load nfs on the pc to mount a nfs share to the pc or to the unix box

There are probably many more ways.

[Torsten.]

Eric,

you may use the Internet Explorer to transfer files from your workstation to the pc. Type

ftp://your.host.ip

to acces with anonymous login or

ftp://username:password@your.host.ip

to login with a specific user account.

[Eric Bakken]

I just looked through my hp-ux books and turns out i have one that covers this topic and i guess it comes with a cd that has the programs i'll need... thanks for your advice everyone... i'll go try it out...

[Mel Burslan]

easiest thing to do is to test if ftp is turned on. If your machine responds to your ftp request from the windows pc with a "username" prompt, you are good to go. If not, there may either be a networking problem or ftp might be turned off.

Did you just inherit this hpux machine with os on it or did you install hpux on this one yourself ?

If you have problems, tell us the symptoms and you can get help very quickly I am sure as ftp is one of the easiest things to get goin with its basic configuration.

[Eric Bakken]

I got it fresh installed with 11.11 on it and I did the initial setup... I'm using it to learn hp-ux...

I'll try some stuff out and get back to you with my results