elementary problems

[Jack Weldon]

In article <310 at nbivax.nbi.dk> gajhede at nbivax.nbi.dk (M.Gajhede Dept. Phys. Chem. HCO, Copenhagen DK) writes:
>I have just got a 4D/20 and have a few elementary problems, that I hope
>someone will answer for me:
>1. Is it impossible to create an anonymous account ? Sysadm says
>max 8 characters, and modifying passwd manually makes telnet work
>but ftp does not know the user.

No, it is not impossible--see the documentation in the TCP/IP manual for
creating an anonymous ftp account.  You cannot do this for telnet.
My 3.2 TCP/IP manual has the info on Page 4-15.  It works just fine.

>2. I get an error from the windows server when trying to log in
>after creating a resolv.conf file:
>domain dk
>nameserver 129.142.96.42
>no problem to log in from telnet connected terminal

Sounds like the window server is not getting the correct resolution from DNS.
Use nslookup(1C) to determine what your nameserver is responding with.

Jack Weldon
System Engineer
SGI Product Support