I need some help trying to set up my Personal Alpha and getting it to respond to FTP.
I am running Windows 7, and running PA version 2.0.17.
What I want to do, is be able to connect to the server from the Windows system it is being hosted by. Basically it is on my laptop, so I can take the Alpha with me and work with it to learn more about VMS. When I configure the network on the VMS system, i can do SHOW LOG *TCP* and my address shows up no problem. However i can never ping, ftp, telnet to the server. Any thoughts?
Sounds like you need a second NIC assigned to the emulator. If only one NIC is available, see section 9.2 in the Avanti User Guide to learn now to use OpenVPN to create a virtual second NIC.
mrkejames2 wrote:
I need some help trying to set up my Personal Alpha and getting it to respond to FTP.
I am running Windows 7, and running PA version 2.0.17.
What I want to do, is be able to connect to the server from the Windows system it is being hosted by. Basically it is on my laptop, so I can take the Alpha with me and work with it to learn more about VMS. When I configure the network on the VMS system, i can do SHOW LOG *TCP* and my address shows up no problem. However i can never ping, ftp, telnet to the server. Any thoughts?
Get PersonalAlphaPlus, (its free). I had issues last night and the night before with Personal Alpha crashing/killing Windows 7 when trying to bring up the TCPIP Services with exclusive mode selected. Replaced with PersonalAlphaPlus and all my issues ceased.
Bruce Claremont wrote:
Sounds like you need a second NIC assigned to the emulator. If only one NIC is available, see section 9.2 in the Avanti User Guide to learn now to use OpenVPN to create a virtual second NIC.
This solutions works fine - you set up the second (TAP Windows V9) NIC dedicated to the Emulator (as per the instructions in Section 9 of the abovementioned guide), configure it to be always on (see the guide instructions for how to do this), wait for it to identify itself and then select both NICs (the host and the TAP virtual one) right click, and select "Bridge connections".
However beware doing this on a Host VM - I am currently trying to make this work where the emulator is running inside a VMWare VM: bridging the NICs is causing loss of the connection to the VM. But it seems to work perfectly (so far) if the host is a hardware computer.
malmberg August 04 2022 No more VAX hobbyist licenses. Community licenses for Alpha/IA64/X86_64 VMS Software Inc. Commercial VMS software licenses for VAX available from HPE.
ozboomer July 20 2022 Just re-visiting.. No more hobbyist licenses? Is that from vmssoftware.com, no 'community' licenses?
valdirfranco July 01 2022 No more hobbyist license...sad
mister_wavey February 12 2022 I recall that the disks failed on the public access VMS systems that included Fafner
parwezw January 03 2022 Anyone know what happened to FAFNER.DYNDS.ORG? I had a hobbyist account here but can longer access the site.
gtackett October 27 2021 Make that DECdfs _2.1A_ for Vax
gtackett October 27 2021 I'm looking for DECdfs V2.4A kit for VAX. Asking here just in case anyone is still listening.
MarkRLV September 17 2021 At one time, didn't this web site have a job board? I would love to use my legacy skills one last time in my career.
malmberg January 18 2021 New Hobbyist PAKs for VAX/VMS are no longer available according to reports. Only commercial licenses are reported to be for sale from HPE
dfilip January 16 2021 Can someone please point me to hobbyist license pak? I'm looking for VAX/VMS 7.1, DECnet Phase IV, and UCX/TCPIP ... have the 7.1 media, need the license paks ... thanks!
