Using TinyTERM Plus Edition 4.04, how do you connect through a telnet firewall to an IBM host with TN5250 or TN3270 terminal emulation?

Configure a sessions using the TTY terminal type and a telnet connection to connect to the firewall as follows:

• Connection host: firewall name or IP address
• Connection Type: telnet
• Terminal Emulation: TTY
• Telnet Terminal Type: (depends on IBM emulation required)
  • 3270
    • IBM-3278-2
    • IBM-3278-3
    • IBM-3278-4
    • IBM-3278-5
  • 5250
    • IBM-3179-2
    • IBM3477-FC
• Save the session.
• Telnet to the firewall using this configuration. When the firewall prompts for the host, enter the hostname or IP address of the destination host.
• Depending on your firewall, you may have to hit the Enter key once to display the initial host screen.

NOTE 1: TinyTERM senses telnet binary mode to know when to switch emulations from TTY to one of the IBM emulations. The IBM terminal emulation desired is specified by the Telnet Terminal Type configuration.

NOTE 2: To preserve the initial firewall connection configuration do not save the session after the IBM host connection is made. TinyTERM changes your session properties when the IBM connection is made.

The Century FTP Client included in TinyTERM Plus versions prior to 4.40 can only copy one directory at a time. However, the SecureFT application included in TinyTERM Plus versions 4.40 and higher can copy multiple directories in a single operation.

When you see this error, TinyTERM Plus was installed on your PC. However, it did not recognize Windows 2000 or XP as it should have, and so installed files appropriate only to Windows 95, 98 or Me.

To get rid of the error, click on Start | Run and enter:

regedit

in the dialog, then click OK. In the Registry Editor, go to

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion

Check the Run, RunOnce and RunOnceEx keys. If you find nar_inet.exe in any of the three, delete that line. That will get rid of the error. You can then delete the directory C:\Program Files\Century\TinyTERM\NetUtils, or uninstall and reinstall TinyTERM if you prefer.

Century Internet Services includes an LPD (line printer daemon) server. However, it only runs on Windows 3.1 or higher. In TinyTERM 4.x, it only runs on Windows 95, 98 and Me.

To put a Century LPD Server on Windows NT 4, 2000, XP or Vista, you will need TinyTERM Plus 4.30 or higher. No prior release includes an LPD server.

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When running Century Internet Services on Windows 95, 98 or Me, enabling the time server (either tcp or udp) causes multiple icons to appear in the Systray. Task Manager shows a separate copy of mar_inet.exe for each icon. They can be removed only by turning off the time server.

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Century Internet Services is a suite of TCP/IP server applications included with TinyTERM Plus and TERM Professional. It installs on Windows 95, 98 and Me. Once TinyTERM is installed, it starts automatically when Windows starts.

You can stop Century Internet Services from launching at startup by doing the following:

1. Click Start | Settings | Control Panel.
2. Double-click on the Network icon.
3. Click on Century Internet Services in the list, then click the Properties button.
4. Select the Options tab.
5. De-select the option “Start Century Internet Services at Windows Startup.”
6. Click OK, then click OK again.

This error during a TinyTERM Plus install means that one or more files could not be overwritten. If you don’t need the NetUtils portion of TinyTERM, you can safely ignore the message.

If you do need NetUtils, copy the TinyTERM install directory to your local hard drive. Then reboot the PC in safe mode before running the install from the local copy. That will bypass any application preventing a file overwrite.

This error was resolved in TinyTERM Plus 4.60 by switching to an MSI installation.

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This may happen on Windows NT when the Century NFS client is installed. If you are not using NFS, you can fix the problem by uninstalling TinyTERM Plus and NetUtils. Reboot, then reinstall TinyTERM Plus without the NFS component.

No version of TinyTERM Plus designed for Windows 2000 or XP installs NFS by default. The NFS client is not supported in those environments, so those systems should never see this error.

Some versions of TinyTERM Plus will cause VCFSD errors after install. This is caused by the NFS client.

When this happens, uninstall TinyTERM Plus and NetUtils. Delete the C:\Program Files\Century directory, then reboot the PC.

Once that’s done, you can reinstall TinyTERM Plus. Don’t install the NFS component of the Network Utilities, and you won’t see the error again.

In the Century FTP Client, if the Set_FACL command has been used to restrict access to files via a File Access Control List, the FTP Client cannot see these files on the server. To resolve this problem you will need to replace the ftp32.exe file. You can download a patch for this here.

To use the patch, locate the existing ftp32.exe file in C:\Program Files\Century\TinyTERM\NetUtils. Rename it as a backup. Copy the patch file Ftp32_FACL.exe into that same directory. Then rename the patch as ftp32.exe. The next time you start the Century FTP Client, the patch will be in effect.

This patch applies to TinyTERM Plus versions 4.10 and earlier. Later versions of TinyTERM Plus incorporate the patch.