IP Networking

I just had to rebuild my Sun Ultra 2 running Solaris 2.5.1 as the boot drive failed. Now I can't log on from the Windows XP using WS_FTP Pro, and can't see the PC on the sun using ftp (it just hangs).

I think I need to add IP addresses to the host file on the Sun box, but can't find information on what needs to go where.

Your host file on the Sun system should be in /etc. (it may be a link to /etc/inet/hosts - 2.5.1 is a very old version - I don't recall if the link existed in that version or not).

See the man page hosts.

Yes, the hosts file is in /etc/inet.
But I'm not sure if my PC IP address needs to be in there for FTP to work in order to connect from the PC to the Sun box.
I couldn't find anything in the ftp man pages regarding with Sun system files FTP looks at.

You don't have to have the PC ip address in /etc/hosts but it makes it easier - you can run a ftp command to an IP (this would be a way to test if the connection is working before editing /etc/hosts - next part is an example)

$ ftp 10.140.10.10

then put your system IP INTO /etc/hosts (next part is an example)
10.140.10.10 myPC

then you can use

$ ftp myPC

Thanks for the help.
I can ping the IP on the Sun and ftp to it and it says I am connected.
However, it still will not let me log on to the Sun.
Since the users had to all be re-created on the Sun, I'm wondering if something in the user has to be set up