From: choueiry@liasun1.epfl.ch (Berthe Y. Choueiry)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.lebanon
Subject: Re: Postcard from Nahribrahim on liasun3.epfl.ch (GIF)
Date: 13 Aug 92 09:52:50 GMT
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne

In article <1992Aug12.220226.23464@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu>, rached@sample.eng.ohio-state.edu (Rached Zantout) writes:
|> I tried logging in as "anonymous" or "guest", the system refused me, Is there
|> something special ? or am I missing something ?

Dear Netters,
Many people seem to have problems to use anonymous ftp. I am including a 
file with all the details (contribution by Borre Ludvingsen, thanks Barre :-) ).
Please disregard this message in case you are familiar with the procedure. Sorry for using the bandwidth, but this might help some of you.

Cheers,
Berthe Y. Choueiry
choueiry@lia.di.epfl.ch
LIA, CM1-618 (MA), DI, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Ecublens
CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Voice: +41-21- 693 52 77			 Fax:   +41-21- 693 52 25

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file README.ftp from liasun3.epfl.ch (128.178.36.30)

If you are new to anonymous ftp servers, we would strongly advise you to
confer with you system operator or a human conversed in the use of ftp
(the file transfer protocol). Ftp is a courtesy service of the Internet
which enables students, researchers and educators all over the world to
access and move large amounts of invaluable information. It is a costly
service generally brought to us by public and private educational
authorities and institutions. Only discretionary use will help in
maintaining and expanding this service. So please familiarize yourself
with both the technical and social functions and rules before applying
your curiosity and enthusiasm.

To get you started, a thumbnail sketch of a sample ftp session is
provided below. Please read it thoroughly and understand the workings of
ftp before starting large file transfers. 

There are two main constraints to using ftp. One is the costs incurred
at your local site which are primarily tied to transfer speeds to your
local node. The other is the capacity on you local machine. Make sure
that your machine has room for the material you are transferring before
down-loading and that it has the capacity to display the files you are
interested in.

A sample session:

Notice the I have written *****PUT YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS HERE******. Entering the password is invisible. It is customary to your your email address as password on anonymous ftp servers. 

The commands I have typed are after the "ftp>" prompt. Remarks are in [brackets].

     10%ftp liasun3.epfl.ch [make the connection]
     Connected to liasun3.epfl.ch.
     220 liasun3 FTP server (Version 6.9 Fri Sep 27 14:32:46 MET DST 1991) ready.
     Name (liasun3.epfl.ch:borrel): anonymous
     331 Guest login ok, send e-mail address as password.
     Password:  [*****PUT YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS HERE******]
     230-Welcome, archive user!  This is an experimental FTP server.
     [more info removed]
     230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
     ftp> cd users/choueiry [change directory]
     250-Please read the file README
     250-  it was last modified on Mon Jun  1 17:04:27 1992 - 59 days ago
     250 CWD command successful.
     ftp> ls [bland directory listing]
     200 PORT command successful.
     150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list.
     Atchikbach-1.JPEG
     [more listing removed]
     IsmaelYassin.uu
     226 Transfer complete.
     857 bytes received in 0.02 seconds (48.44 Kbytes/s)
     ftp> cd UmKoulthoum [change directory again]
     250 CWD command successful.
     ftp> ls
     200 PORT command successful.
     150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list.
     IntaUmri.gif
     IntaUmri.uu
     alatlal.gif
     alatlal.uu
     AlHubKollou
     Zikrayat
     UmKalthoum.gif
     UmKalthoumDith.gif
     AnaFiIntizarak
     226 Transfer complete.
     127 bytes received in 1.58 seconds (0.08 Kbytes/s)
     ftp> cd Zikrayat
     250 CWD command successful.
     ftp> ls -l [long listing, shows sizes and directories]]
     200 PORT command successful.
     150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls.
     total 242
     -rw-r--r--  1 Choueiry   747556 Jul 29 13:26 zik.end.au
     -rw-r--r--  1 Choueiry  1079320 Jul 29 13:37 zik.start.au
     -rw-r--r--  1 Choueiry    15180 Jul 28 12:12 zikrayat.gif
     -rw-r--r--  1 Choueiry      675 Jul 29 13:42 zikrayat.msg
     226 Transfer complete.
     remote: -l
     245 bytes received in 0.06 seconds (4.06 Kbytes/s)
     ftp> hash
     Hash mark printing on (1024 bytes/hash mark).
     ftp> bin [necessary for transferring binary files like pictures and sounds]
     200 Type set to I.
     ftp> get zikrayat.msg [you can add a local filename of your choice here]
     200 PORT command successful.
     150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for zikrayat.msg (675 bytes).
     #   [hash marks show transfer progress]
     226 Transfer complete.
     local: zikrayat.msg remote: zikrayat.msg
     694 bytes received in 0.56 seconds (1.21 Kbytes/s)
     ftp> bye
     221 Goodbye.
     15%

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