Thanks for the responses! We had looked into firewall problem as well as the relative path name. Neither seem to be the issue here, unfortunately. We've scrounged around the shop for a TCPIP guru and plan to drag them over here to see what might be in the way. We're still sure it's something simple and stupid.
Changing the subject somewhat: We're playing with a trial version of SLES9. Eventually we're going to have to *groan* pay for Linux, and we were wondering what the flavor of the month was. It appears that SuSE seems to have an edge in the zVM world. Out of curiosity, what are most shops running? We are also very interested in Linux management software, such as Aduva OnStage and Levanta. We've seen both products demonstrated, and are impressed. Is anyone out there using them? Any preferences? Thanks very much for your guidance! Mark Llewellyn Visa USA -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Post, Mark K Sent: Monday, August 01, 2005 12:21 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: SLES9 on zVM 4.4 Install Issue David's response about firewall rules is definitely worth looking into, particularly since the IP address of your Linux/390 guest is different from any of the other systems you've tried to reach the FTP server with. The second note is that the path to the installation files on your FTP server _must_ be a relative path, unless your FTP server puts you into a chroot environment, where your home directory looks like it is "/" and not "/home/userid." If you mounted the installation files underneath your home directory, then just specify ./remotecdrom and not /remotecdrom. Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Llewellyn, Mark Sent: Monday, August 01, 2005 2:27 PM To: [email protected] Subject: SLES9 on zVM 4.4 Install Issue Greetings - our issue is very similar to one posed by John Bohnsack back in Feb 05. Simply put, we've been trying to persuade our SLES9 guest to see our FTP server. We have an OSA Express card attached to the guest, and we fall down through the SLES9 installation script, only to have our FTP session time out, although it is able to ping it. The output from the script is below, and the entered IP addresses and directory names are correct. The odd thing: We're a TPF shop, and use VPARS to clone many instances of TPF for development. We ARE able to establish a connection with the FTP Server from a TPF session under zVM. But we get timeouts on our Linux guest (same VM). We've tried swapping OSA cards/addresses, and SAMBA (same result). We're Glow-in-the-Dark Newbies at this, and we're stumped. We have no doubt this is something simple and probably stupid. Any guidance at all would be greatly appreciated! Here's a console fragment: Please specify the installation Source: 1) NFS 2) SAMBA 3) FTP 0) Abort Choice: 15:48:24 3 15:48:24 Please enter the IP-Number of the host providing the installation media: 15:49:26 10.172.43.21 15:49:26 PING 10.172.43.21 (10.172.43.21) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 10.172.43.21: icmp_seq=1 ttl=121 time=29.0 ms 15:49:27 64 bytes from 10.172.43.21: icmp_seq=2 ttl=121 time=28.9 ms 15:49:28 64 bytes from 10.172.43.21: icmp_seq=3 ttl=121 time=35.3 ms --- 10.172.43.21 ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2021ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 28.999/31.135/35.308/2.954 ms Please enter the directory of the installation media: 15:49:34 Jul 29 22:49:34 suse in.telnetd[254]: connect from 10.0.55.13 (10.0.55.13)° 15:49:44 remotecdrom/ Is the following correct? Installation Source: ftp IP-Address: 10.172.43.21 Directory: /remotecdrom/ Yes/No: 15:49:48 y 15:49:48 Please enter the username for the FTP-access (for anonymous just press enter): 15:49:53 15:49:53 Please enter the password for the FTP-Access (for anonymous just press enter): 15:49:54 15:49:54 Is the following correct? FTP User: FTP Password: Yes/No: 15:49:57 yes 15:52:28 Jul 29 22:52:28 suse in.telnetd[265]: connect from 10.0.55.13 (10.0.55.13)° 15:52:55 Jul 29 22:52:55 suse in.telnetd[267]: connect from 10.0.55.13 (10.0.55.13)° 15:53:07 ftp: connect: Connection timed out FTP-Server or directory not acessable. Please check parameters. Mark Llewellyn Engineering VM Systems Support VISA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
