Mark,

MPE iX 6.0 FTP has problems with all GUI clients.

It used to be the case (5.5 et al) that MPUT and MGET worked in the Posix
and MPE file space and happily handled this (put and get behaved as Mark
describes ).

Now if you use WS FTP, the KEA!HP FTP file shuttle or other GUI ftp clients
you get:

RETR inetd.conf
550 NONEXISTENT GROUP  (FSERR 51)

I got the following reply from HPUKRC in March:
<snip>
The Network Expert Centre engineer agreed with us that the change to FTP
on 6.0 was unexpected and unwelcome.
I have therefore submitted Service Request 1653298141, asking for the
behaviour of MGET on 6.0 to be consistent with its behaviour on 5.5.  I
hope we'll at least get an explanation of what happened fairly soon.
<snip>

Ken Vickers
LINKWAY Development and Support
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-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Wilkinson <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 23 April 1999 10:30
Subject: Problem with Reflection FTP Client


>Just upgraded to version 7.0 of Reflection. The new FTP client looks great
>*except* that when uploading a file from the client to the HFS namespace on
the
>server, I *still* get the "NONEXISTANT GROUP" error. This is infuriating. I
>would have thought that the client would be smart enough to work out that
the
>file needs the ./ in front of it as in...
>
>ftp > put htmlfile.htm ./htmlfile.htm
>
>when transferring to the MPE/iX FTP server.
>
>A big thumbs-down to WRQ for this one. The problem has been present in
*every*
>version of their FTP client that I have used. I thought that this would be
a
>very obvious one to get right this time around.
>
>Please tell me that there is some config option I can set to cure this.
>
>TIA.
>
>Mark Wilkinson.
>