1. Define Communication?
[1m or 5m]
The Interaction between two or more users on two or more different terminals is
called Communication.
In UNIX, communication is an excellent feature that enables the user to communicate
worldwide.
It supports various communication facilities provided using the write command, mail
command, talk command, etc.
UNIX can help facilitate communication among people.
Unix provides a rather rich set of communications tools
The first two communication utilities talk and write, deal with communications
between two users at different terminals.
2. Define Remote Access? Explain Different Types Of Remote Access ?[10m]
When we sit at our personal computer ,we are working in our local environment .If
from our personal computer we log into a computer located at another site, we are
connecting remotely .Unix uses the telnet utility for remote login
The telnet concept: An abbreviation for telnet is Terminal Network
The telnet utility is a TCP/IP standard for the exchange of data between computer
systems. The main task of telnet is to provide services for users.
telnet working port number 23
Remote login there are Two Types
I. Local login :
When we log into local time sharing system it is called
local login.
In a time-sharing environment a large computer supports
multiple users
II. Remote login: when we access an application program or utility located on
a remote machine, we must still login, only this time it is a remote login.
Example of using Telnet to Connecting to remote system:
• $telnet
• telnet> open cvr.ac.in
• Trying……
• Connected to cvr.ac.in
• ..
• Logout
• Connection closed by foreign host
Telnet interface commands:
• Open-connects to a remote computer
• Close-closes the connection.
• Display-shows the operating parameters.
• Mode-changes to line mode or character mode.
• Set-sets the operating parameters.
• Status-displays the status information.
• Send-sends special characters
• Quit-exits
?-the help command
3. Define File transfer Protocal (FTP)[5m or 10m]:
• Whenever a file is transferred from a client to a server, a server to a client or
between to servers, a transfer utility is used. in UNIX ftp is used to transfer files.
• FTP uses the services of TCP. It needs two TCP connections.
• The well-known port 21 is used for the control connection and the well-known
port 20 for the data connection.
• There are two commands to transfer files: get and put. Both of these commands are
made in reference to the local system. Therefore get copies a file from the remote system
to local system where as put
Write a file from the local system to the remote system.
Example: Syntax: $get file[new_file_name]
$put file[new_file_name]
• $ ftp voyager.fhda.edu
• Connected to voyager.fhda.edu.
• ……….
• Name:gilberg
• Password:
• Remote system type is unix
• ftp>
• Closing an ftp connection
• ftp>quit.
ffp>close