barboni@sbcs.sunysb.edu (Carol Barboni) (05/23/91)
[ Lest there be any confusion here, I am posting this for a friend who has read access to News, but cannot himself post thereunto: ] I'm running version 1.65 of WinQVTNet. The other day, as I was getting ready to shut windows down, I noticed on the QVTNet console window that someone had FTP'd into my PC, under the anonymous ID, and _had gotten in successfully_! I hadn't spent much time reading the documentation on anonymous FTP, since I didn't want or need it, but had assumed the anonymous FTP was disabled by default. Apparently, it isn't. A further reading of the documentation reveals that I can assign a default directory for anonymous users, that they can't CD above, and that gives me some protection; but I can't seem to find any mention of a way to disable anonymous users altogether. I even tried putting an anonymous account, with password, in my password file with PASSWD.EXE, but apparently QVTNet processes the anonymous login without consulting this file. I also tried assigning anonftp_dir a bogus value (nul, a non-existent directory, etc.; I know, probably a silly thought, but I was graping for a solution :-) ), but all that did was cause QVTNet to act as though anonftp_dir had not been set at all. Does anybody else know of a way to do this? While I'm here, a few items I've thought of for the QVTNet wish list: I'd like to see the console display the IP address (at least) of the originator of PINGs, FTPs, etc. It would also be nice (although I wonder about the overhead) if the FTP server would log a bit more information than just login and logoff; I'd like to see what files were transferred, etc. A pause capability, in the style of the scroll lock key in NCSA Telnet, would also be handy; ^S/^Q don't seem to work reliably across the network (in this or any other Telnet package). One last thing, in the nature of a possible bug: has anybody noticed that when you run a telnet session and an FTP client session, that while the FTP client is transferring a file, certain keystrokes in the telnet session (specifically, for me, CR and BS) get sent up to the host twice? Sounds goofy, but happens consistanly every time I transfer a file with the FTP client. Thanks for listening, and for any help you folks can provide. Danny +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Danny Yarbrough | | yarbroug@gdstech.grumman.com | | Grumman Data Systems, McLean, Virginia (703)-760-0285 | +------------------------------------------------------------+