XRHAH@SCFVM.BITNET ("Herbert A. Huston") (10/26/89)
----------------------------Original message---------------------------- > I should have put this in the previous message, sorry. Actually, it's better that you separated them. > We have been searching for a way to distribute data over Internet with >FTP. The system managers at NSSDC have such tight constraints on available >space (they are expecting four new drives -- all of which are already >overbooked by 100-200%) that they are reluctant to set up a "safe", i.e. >FTP-only account for our sole use. > Would it be possible to set up an account under CMS that can be used only >for temporarily storing ADC catalogs and allow outside users to use FTP >to get the data? The account should only be able to 'see' it's own A-disk >during an FTP session, so system disks, etc. should be invisible. > We would need in the neighborhood of 4-8 Megabytes of disk storage for >such a beast. I'd appreciate any help I could get, thanks. There are two problems here: (1) Getting the space, and (2) using FTP. (1) TEADC could own the space. Your sponsor would have to fill out some paper- work. This shouldn't really be much of a problem for you. (2) It sounds like you want anonymous FTP. This feature is available with IBM's implementation, but I believe that it has not been enabled here. Per- haps you can get it enabled (you got LISTSERV after all). What would happen is that the remote user would FTP in and would specify ANONYMOU for a userid and anything at all for a password. He'd then have to enter the appropriate commands that FTPSERVE would interpret as LINK and ACCESS commands for TEADC's minidisk. The minidisk would have a read password of ALL and, of course, top secret write and multi passwords. All of this is technically quite simple. You just have to get past the politics. (So what else is new?) -- Herb