From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 6 19:31:11 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA23761 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 19:31:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from peacock.tci.com (coral.tci.com [198.178.8.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA23754 for ; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 19:31:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tubutis.chris@tci.com) Received: from oreo.tci.com (co-chris-pc01.tci.com [172.18.27.65]) by peacock.tci.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id UAA01704; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 20:30:39 -0700 (MST) Received: from tci.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by oreo.tci.com (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id UAA00845; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 20:30:19 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <36942A4A.809C02A3@tci.com> Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 20:30:18 -0700 From: Chris Tubutis Organization: Tele-Communications, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.7 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "N. R.R." CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help with ftp problem References: <19990107031126.22137.qmail@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "N. R.R." wrote: > > Hello, > > I FINALLY got a ppp connection, even though I have to do it manually > with > term and not through ppp.conf. Although my problem is with FTP. After > I > establish my connection I hit - to switch to another terminal, > login, and then type ftp://username:pass@yada.yada.yada and this is > what > I get back > > ftp: ftp yada.yada.yada : Host Unknown > > I cant seem to get telnet to work either. I know I am connected, but I > am > trying to get into my schools account and then get a Netscape browser > downloaded. Could you try it the normal way and see if it works? e.g. $ ftp yadda.yadda.yadda Connected to yadda.yadda.yadda. 220 yadda.yadda.yadda FTP server (SunOS 5.6) ready. Name (yadda:chris): username 331 Password required for username. Password: (not echoed) 230 User username logged in. ftp> Then do the normal cd, dir, bin, get, etc.... chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message