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- Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!destroyer!iunet!mousetrap!pat
- From: pat@mousetrap.canton.mi.us (Patrick Kehoe)
- Subject: Re: LWP and FTP to SGI Indigo problem
- Message-ID: <C0px0M.8Gw@mousetrap.canton.mi.us>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 01:48:21 GMT
- References: <C0o3ry.50J@mousetrap.canton.mi.us>
- Organization: Mousetrap/Vivid
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- In article <C0o3ry.50J@mousetrap.canton.mi.us> pat@mousetrap.canton.mi.us writes
- >
- >I just got done installing LAN WorkPlace for DOS ver 4.1 for a client.
- >They wanted the program to communicate to their SGI indigo, basically
- >to FTP to it. After configuring the dos side, and making sure that
- >we had a user on the SGI, I pinged it, and every this was hunky-dory.
- >Ok, great, then I try to ftp, and I enter the user name, and then
- >it just hangs.
- >
- >Ok, I run lwpcon, and everything looks great! FTP services are active,
- >everything is ok. So I try to ftp to a sun, and a rs6000. Everything
- >works great. Ok, now I figure that the SGI is just wacked out and
- >can't ftp. So I try to ftp from the sun, and it works. Now I am
- >really confused. Please help me resolve this problem before my
- >brain shrivels in to a little pit.
- >
- >SGI information: os version 4.0sf, running a r3000 processor. The
- >version of the ftp program is 2.1, and it was stored in the /usr/bsd
- >directory.
- >
-
- After calling 1-800-net-ware and spending the $20 per incident, I got
- tech support to verify that this is a problem with lwp 4.1 and SGI
- workstations. They have not been able to tell me what or provide a
- work around, so any additional information would be most helpful.
-
- Pat
-
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- Patrick Kehoe Vivid Visions, Inc.
- pat@mousetrap.canton.mi.us 9282 General Drive Suite 130
- (Stupid quote coming soon...) Plymouth, MI 48170
-