Managing Systems and Workgroups: A Guide for HP-UX System Administrators

Planning a Workgroup
Services for Data Exchange with Personal Computers
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Because ftp is supported by HP-UX and available on many PC-based
operating systems, it is an ideal tool to use for transferring data between
HP-UX systems and your personal computers.
On HP-UX systems, the ftp utility can be found in the executable file:
/usr/bin/ftp.
CAUTION When you are using ftp every character you type, including those
representing your passwords to accounts on remote systems, travels
across the network unencrypted. This is an important security issue as it
is possible for someone to “listen” to the network traffic and obtain your
passwords. For this reason it is best to use the “anonymous” login when
connecting to remote systems via ftp.
For details on how to transfer files using ftp, see “Configuring HP-UX
Systems for File Transfer” on page 417.
Kermit
Kermit is a family of file transfer, management, and communication
software programs from Columbia University available for most
computers and operating systems.
Like ftp, kermit can be used to transfer files (both ASCII and binary)
between HP-UX systems and personal computers.
HP-UX includes a standalone version of kermit: /usr/bin/kermit.
Terminal Emulators
Terminal emulators allow you to log in to one computer from another. A
wide variety of terminal emulators exist that run on personal computers.
They can be used to connect to HP-UX systems either via a modem or, in
some cases, via network connections. HP-UX includes the terminal
emulator known as telnet which can be used to connect to network
based personal computers, provided that the PC’s are running a telnet
server application.
Many terminal emulators offer built-in or plug-in file transfer features;
most offer session logging to your local disk which is another way that
you can share data between PCs and HP-UX systems.