NetEx EFT213 Reference Manual Rel 5.4

CONNECT CommandDescriptionThe CONNECT command is used to establish a connection to a remote host on the network. The host namespecified must exist in the local network configuration. By default, CONNECT attempts to connect to theservice named EFT offered on the remote host. If this service is not offered the connection request will eventuallytime out. A remote Service Initiator or Multiplex Server is usually the one making the service offering.You can set or display the service name with the SET CONNECT SERVICE and SHOW CONNECTSERVICE commands respectively. The recommended way for connecting to a remote host is to use theLOGIN or LOGON alias. These aliases prompt the user for a hostname, username, and password, (and accountand profile for LOGON) then issues the appropriate CONNECT command for the user.The connect process actually logs you in to the remote host using its standard login procedure; validusernames and passwords must be provided to accomplish this. Some systems provide a default NetEx/eFTlogin username and password. If the system you are connecting to supports this feature, you could optionallyleave off these two parameters.When a connection is first established it becomes the current “active” connection -- any REMOTE commandrefers to the host associated with that connection. When a connection to another host is attempted, the old“active” connection is put into an idle state. NetEx/eFT allows as many as ten connections to exist at a time,although one or two connections is normally all that a user would have use for. You can switch from oneconnection to another by means of the SET HOST command.Connecting to certain hosts often takes more than a few seconds. Therefore, NetEx/eFT displays intermediateCONNECT messages informing you of its current connect status. If a connection cannot immediately be establisheddue to the service not being offered on the specified host or because the service is busy, CONNECTwill retry every INTERVAL seconds for a total of TIMEOUT seconds (INTERVAL and TIMEOUT areCONNECT command qualifiers). Intermediate connect messages display both success and failure information.Page 118 Command Descriptions REF-eFT213-R5.4-08