DalTech CPST2000
Technical Communications

Telnet and FTP

Telnet Exercise

  1. Telnet to your account on IS2.
  2. List the files and directories in your account.
  3. Identify which are directories and which are files.
  4. Create a directory called CPST2000 in your home directory.

 

Anonymous FTP using a Client Exercise

  1. Open the FTP client in QVTNet
  2. FTP to a public anonymous FTP site.
  3. Find the directory where the publicly accessible files are.
  4. Find the index file or any other text file in the public directory and display it on your screen.
  5. Navigate through this directory’s file and subdirectories and find a small (less than 10K) file. Download the file to the floppy drive of your computer.
  6. End the FTP session.

 

Regular FTP using a Client Exercise

  1. Open the FTP client in QVTNet.
  2. FTP to your account on IS2.
  3. Copy the file you downloaded previously to the CPST2000 directory in your account on IS2.
  4. Delete the file from your floppy drive on your computer.
  5. End the FTP session.

 

Anonymous FTP using Unix Command Line Exercise

  1. Telnet to your IS2 account.
  2. Change to the CPST2000 directory
  3. Open an FTP session on IS2 and connect to Bill’s computer (IP 134.190.9.74) anonymously.
  4. Create a directory using your last name.
  5. Upload the file from your CPST2000 directory on IS2 to the directory you created on Bill’s computer.
  6. Delete the file from your CPST2000 directory on IS2 and then remove the directory.
  7. End the FTP session.

CPST2000