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Configuring and Managing FTP
The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) software transfers files between ‘‘nontrusted’’
hosts. Nontrusted hosts require user name and password information for remote
logins.
The TCP/IP Services product includes an implementation of the FTP end-user
applications.
This chapter describes:
• How to manage the FTP service (Section 15.1)
• How to solve FTP problems (Section 15.2)
For information on using FTP, see the DIGITAL TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS
User’s Guide.
15.1 Managing FTP
Managing FTP consists of the the following tasks:
• Enabling and disabling FTP
• Configuring anonymous FTP
• Defining FTP logical names
• Monitoring FTP with FTP log files
15.1.1 Enabling and Disabling FTP
After FTP is configured by TCPIP$CONFIG, the postinstallation configuration
procedure, it is started automatically when TCP/IP Services is started.
To stop any new connections without losing existing connections, disable the FTP
server interactively using the SET NOSERVICE command. To disable FTP when
TCP/IP Services starts, use the SET CONFIGURATION NOSERVICE command.
See the Compaq TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS Management Command Reference
for descriptions of the SET SERVICE and SET CONFIGURATION SERVICE
commands.
15.1.2 Configuring Anonymous FTP
Anonymous FTP is an FTP session in which a user logs in to the remote server
using the user name ANONYMOUS and, by convention, the user’s real user name
as the password.
On the local FTP server, local users can access files without password
authentication. Remote users do not require an account. File access is controlled
by regular OpenVMS access restrictions.
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