ftp from Red Hat AS 4.4 to Open VMS System

[Herta Van den Eynde]

On 08/12/06, Troy Knabe <knabe at 4j.lane.edu> wrote:
> I am migrating from some Solaris boxes to Red Hat.  I have a couple of
> jobs that ftp a file to our legacy Alpha server running Open VMS (All on
> a private network).
>
> Anyway, from Sun and even Winders boxes the ftp works fine.  But from
> any of my Red Hat boxes, I get connected and can even run some commands,
> ie. status, rstatus.  But an ls, dir, get, or put all just hang forever.
>   Does anyone have any ideas.  I have already tried both ftp binaries on
> the boxes, and stopped iptables on the linux servers, with no luck.
>
> Thanks
> -Troy

Haven't touched vms in ages, so this may be way off, but there used to
be a problem when the vms account had a password over 8 characters
long.

Kind regards,

Herta