Larry, have a look in ftplog.arpa.sys. It might show you more information.
Also have a look at the capabilities for user FTP.SYS. It might not have
'IA' on it, which would not allow it to logon. Otherwise look at access
rights for the other ftp files in the arpa group.

Regards

Richard Bayly
HP Australia Response Centre

Simonsen, Larry wrote:

> One week ago our system in India was working just fine.  I took a week
> off and visited Calcutta.  And the phone systems there were very bad and
> I could not dial into the server in Bangalore.  Well I get back to the
> states and can connect into the NT server and ping the system,  I can
> logon with NS/VT so I know much is working.  I try to connect with ftp
> and get error
> 501 error initializing.
>
> What does this mean?  Looking at the jinetd job there is a line stating
> Received call for: ftp TCP
> In the startup it lists ftp/TCP added service, server /sys/arpa/ftpsrvr
> and then configuration complete.
>
> What is happening?
>
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