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- From: iac!simpson@uunet.uu.net (Scott Simpson)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso
- Subject: How do you transfer files over X.25 using pad?
- Summary: Don't know how to transfer files over X.25 using pad.
- Keywords: X.25, PAD, Sunlink, file transfer
- Message-ID: <697@iac.uunet.uu.net>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 12:29:02 GMT
- Reply-To: iac!simpson@uunet.uu.net
- Organization: Investment Technology Group, Culver City, CA
- Lines: 34
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- SunOS 4.1.1, Sunlink X.25, Infonet X.25 PDN
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- We have the need to transfer files between two Sun machines on an X.25
- network (Infonet). One machine will not be running x25manager so we
- won't have the two machines speaking TCP/IP between them and we won't
- be able to copy files using rcp. We will have the x29 daemon running
- between the two machines though so we would like to transfer files
- using pad. Is there any way to do this? I can think of three possible
- ways to do this:
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- 1. Somehow get kermit or another file transfer program to connect to
- pad (perhaps through ptys?), log in to the remote machine and spark up
- the kermit there. I don't know how to get kermit to talk to a local
- pad though.
-
- 2. Somehow use the x29-auth file to spark up a remote ftp or some
- other program when the pad connection is made and then talk to that. I
- don't like this idea because the remote ftp is started as root and
- then the person could get a root shell within ftp.
-
- 3. Write a program locally that connects to the remote x29 daemon,
- logs in and transfers the files. This is a pain because I have to
- write parsing code to log in, find the prompt, etc.
-
- 4. Skip X.29 completely and run a daemon on the remote machine that is
- used for transferring files. I would have to write a local program
- also for initiating the transfer. This is pain because I have to write
- a couple of programs.
-
- Surely this issue has been approached before and I am just missing
- something. Can someone tell me a solution?
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- Scott Simpson, Investment Technology Group, iac!simpson@uunet.uu.net
-