derosa@motcid.UUCP (John DeRosa) (07/21/90)
I am part of a very large wide area network (WAN) that has Macs in various parts of the world. Because of some corporate dictates, AppleTalk is not allowed to leave our local (fairly large) LAN. All other IP traffic is allowed. In fact, we can use TelNet to access and FTP to/from any of our computer systems in the world. Via other computer hosts, we have been able to send files to remote Macintosh LAN's by binhex'ing the file and then ftp up to a common host, then ftp'ing it down again, followed by a un-binhex. Whew. This works but is a bit much for most of my users to put up with. What I really want to do is be able to transfer files directly. I am currently using the BYU version of NCSA TelNet that allows ftp sessions from one mac to another. One mac must be running the BYU version of TelNet while the other can be running any version of TelNet. This has worked but appears "buggy". The single constant bug I am running into is as follows. Start the ftp session, use bin to switch to binary mode, then do an ls to see where I am (which is suppose to switch back to ascii mode). The ls does not work at that point and most other commands appear to be corrupted from then on. If I do the ls first, then the bin, the following file transfer appears to work fine. Sometimes the file arrives as 0K, which may be caused by macbinary not being enabled. I do not have enough experience yet to determine an accurate reliable way to transfer files with BYU TelNet. Worse yet, if I get in this corrupt mode, it appears that it requires restarting telnet on both macs to get going again. This can be a real problem if the other mac is 12 time zones away. I have heard of commercial versions of TelNet that have ftp capability (TCP Connect). Does anyone have info on this package or others that may be available? Another approach we are following is utilizing Microsoft Mail coupled with Gator-Mail by Cayman Systems. Gator-Mail is an smtp gateway for MS Mail. This allows us to mail to the vast majority of the hosts in our WAN. Gator-Mail also supports enclosures (via uuencode and uudecode) that are automatically encoded, sent and decoded! Once we get this mail tool running on the other remote Mac systems, we can just mail them files as enclosures (via other mail hosts). This will be as transparent a file transfer as any for my users. Thanks for any information or help. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= = John DeRosa, Motorola, Inc, Cellular Infrastructure Division = = uunet: ...uunet!motcid!derosaj = = internet: motcid!derosaj@uunet.uu.net = = Applelink: N1111 = = I do not hold by employer responsible for any information in this message = = nor am I responsible for anything my employer may do or say. = =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
nolan@tssi.UUCP (Michael Nolan) (07/23/90)
Will this file transfer methodology be approved by the longshoremen's union?
barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) (07/24/90)
In article <4270@crystal9.UUCP> derosa@motcid.UUCP (John DeRosa) writes: > I have heard of commercial versions of TelNet that have > ftp capability (TCP Connect). Does anyone have info on > this package or others that may be available? Intercon (TCP/Connect II) has a FTP menu that brings up a Panel like the Font/DA mover. You click on the file(s), set the ASCII/Binary MacBinary switches, and click copy. You can browse the remote directory using this panel, and copy either direction. I like the interface a lot. -- Bruce G. Barnett barnett@crd.ge.com uunet!crdgw1!barnett