I have lost my FTP capability. We can no longer connect to FTP server from PC's running reflections. What needs to be running in openVMS to allow an FTP client to connect?

The FTP-service needs to be ENABLED on VMS. $ TCPIP SHOW SERVICE FTP If it is DISABLED $ TCPIP ENABLE SERVICE FTP If it is gone..... $ @SYS$STARTUP:TCPIP$CONFIG under SERVER COMPONENTS you can ENABLE/START FTP again.

Thanks for the reply. I don't have TCPIP$CONFIG but have UCX$CONFIG. This utility has the ability to ENABLE/DISABLE FTP. The FTP server and client are ENABLED. The FTP service is running since I can enter FTP and receive an FTP> prompt. When I try to connect an FTP session to itself $ FTP> connect {myhost} The system returns %FTP-E-NETERR, I/O ERROR on Network Device -SYSTEM-F-REJECT, connect to network object rejected When I try a FTP connection from my PC via using Reflections, the following message is returned The FTP server returned this error: A connection cannot be established. Please try again. Any idea what I need to do to correct this problem?

Post a $ UCX SHOW SERVICE FTP/FULL and try $ UCX DISABLE SERVICE FTP $ UCX ENABLE SERVICE FTP and try again........

Thanks again for the reply! I've discovered that the FTP service is running and enabled even after a reboot but FTP will not work (Thanks for UCX SHOW SERVICE). If I execute UCX$FTPD_STARTUP.COM, I can connect via FTP from my PC. Unfortunately, my terminal from which I launched the UCX$FTPD_STARTUP.COM is now busy running the process and will not return a prompt. How can I launch this as a 'background??' process so it is always running. Better yet, which command file should be launching this during startup.

How about something like this: $ run sys$system:loginout/detach- /input=ucx$ftpd_startup.com- /output=logfilespec- /authorize- /process_name="FTP Daemon" where logfilespec must be a full file spec for the log file.

That's ONLY a temporary workaround !!! The FTP-service $ UCX SHOW SERVICE FTP/FULL will use UCX$FTPD_STARTUP.COM to launch a process to handle the FTPrequest. It also have an inactivity-timeout (DEF=5 min). The process dies after usage...... but will be reused if another request is issued within the timout. Let's troubleshoot the problem....... I have sent you a mail.