[vb_ftp.txt]
 
 
This extra text to vb_info.txt is important for 
some (esp. Linux and Unix) platforms and written 
so as to help tune the file transfer to work 
if there is anything that doesn't work when the 
normal instructions in vb_info.txt are followed 
more or less to the letter. If it turns out that 
this document, written at the same time, about 
as the vb_info (this written 13th of feb.,'12) 
has a validity also many years into the future, 
-- the same solutions applying there -- we will 
simply let this document be there, right beside the 
link to vb_info.txt at the norskesites.org/fic3 
and moscowsites.org/fic3 download pages. 
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Hi! When we made the vb_info.txt, we made some 
assumptions as to how to get the FTP file 
transfer to work. It turns out that for some 
platforms, the VirtualBox.org is implemented 
so that a slight but acceptable modification 
has to be done relative to what we said in 
the vb_info.txt on how to get the file transfer 
flowing smoothly in and out of the vb. If you 
have a VirtualBox program that, when you 
follow the instructions in vb_info to change 
the vb SETTINGS -> NETWORK and set it as said 
there, namely to HOST-ONLY ADAPTER, then it 
turns out that on some VirtualBox.org  
implementations (at present e.g. the Linux Fedora 
version) it comes up with 'Not selected' any such 
adapter in the next field. And so this one won't 
be an acceptable setting for the vb program. What 
we have got to do then is to do something along 
these lines, which does work although there may 
be some tweaks to how you do it on some platforms: 
  First, set SETTINGS -> NETWORK to BRIGDED ADAPTER 
and watch what it comes up with -- e.g.   'eth0' 
which may be exactly the internet interface  
for your PC.  
  Click on Advanced. Be prepared to experiment 
here if need be, but initially -- IN THIS CASE -- 
put 'deny' to Promiscuity, at first, anyway. 
Also, leave the other fields as they are, and 
just make sure it is clicked on 'Cable connected'. 
  Second, make sure the net is PLUGGED IN, which 
will matter in some cases, as otherwise the Linux 
may automatically make this 'eth0' unavailable, 
even for connections within the computer to it. 
This may mean turning wireless on, or plugging 
the physical cable on, and manually also enabling 
it.  
  You can then later on see if it also works with 
cable not plugged in. Let it first be plugged in, 
and let the network connection be real -- test it 
by going to internet with a browser. 
  The good news is that when using this approach,
you can probably, for most machines, let the 
Firewall be on. (To adjust or check Firewall 
settings e.g. in Fedora16, type in the word 
Firewall in the search button when you open up 
for applications, and have the root password ready.) 
  When you get it to work you maybe want to get 
into the C:\FDOS\FTPPASS.TXT and set your own 
proper user id and password since we are going 
to have a little bit more opening to internet 
when using this particular way of doing FTP within 
the PC. 
  At any rate, you should now give it a test. 
On some PC platforms, reboot the PC after any 
big change or big software installation to fully 
get refreshed all drivers. 
  Start up the Vibe F3 and use the menu #3, which 
is the one you should always use for FTP. 
  Answer 'N' on loading CD, and answer 'N' on 
loading F3, and then type, as normal for FTP, 
  CD  \ 
  FTPSRV 
and press an extra lineshift. If it reported success 
when booting the Vibe, then it probably also here 
will report success. 
  With luck and (in some cases, also) perserverance 
it will now report 'Good news' on startup, and tell 
you a number like 10.0.0.nn or 192.nnn.nnn.nn or 
something like that to be used as address. Make 
a note of it. 
  The user name is 123456 and password also 123456 
before you change it.  
  There are now two possibilities: 
  One, that using a graphical FTP program is 
possible, and it shows you a filelist. If it  
doesn't show you a filelist, do not despair in 
the slightest, as long as it reports /DRIVE_C/ 
as file directory. First of all, you can still 
export files INTO the Vibe even if it doesn't 
show a file-list.  
  Second, you will probably also be able to 
get files out of it, with ease. 
  Here is now you can do it in most platforms, 
if it reports contact with /DRIVE_C/ but doesn't 
give any filelist. 
  On something like Centos Linux, which is very 
much like Fedora Linux only even more near the 
original RedHat8.0 standard (a standard which is 
the R CD-set called 'USB utility partition' in 
the files at yoga4d.org/download or /downloads, 
the GNU GPL Open Source platform which became 
Fedora when Red Hat made the 9.0 and onwards its 
commercial version of GNU/Linux) you can open a 
new program named Terminal, in it type the word   
su for superuser as you always do when doing 
anything administrative, type your own root password, 
then type 
  cd /backup1 
or something, if you have e.g. TEST1.TXT and 
wants to try to put it into the Vibe. 
Then type 
  ftp 
  open 10.0.0.4 
or whatever number that you made a note of 
as the correct number. If all goes well you are 
then prompted for user name and password. 
Then type 
  put 
and you will be prompted for two things, the 
name of the local file on your surrounding 
platform, and the name of the new file when it 
is put into the Vibe F3. The local name can be 
e.g. TEST1.TXT. The local name is then specified as
something which always begins by /DRIVE_C/ and 
a natural thing to type is 
  /DRIVE_C/BOEHM/BOEHMIAN/ 
We suppose this works, and you now test getting 
a file out of just this location. You type 
  get 
and the local name in this case is e.g. TEST3.TXT 
while the name in the Vibe can be e.g. 
  /DRIVE_C/BOEHM/BOEHMIAN/MTDOC.TXT 
which is a large standard manual file. After this, 
type 
  quit 
and also, inside the Vibe, you click to activate 
that frame and press CTR-C (make sure you use left 
control button), to leave the ftpsrv. You then 
try to write e.g. 
  TYPE TEST1.TXT 
and with luck, it is right. You also check if 
your TEST3.TXT in the surrounding platform is 
available as it should. 
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