Thanks to all for your responses.

The userid/password prompts are now gone. 

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Laughlin, Lisa
Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 2:21 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] IBM FTP server asking for userid and password

Hmm,

You can go directly to
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/maintenance
for instance, and it doesn't ask....

thanks!
lisa                    


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf 
> Of Gretchen L. Thiele
> Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 12:40 PM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: [ADSM-L] IBM FTP server asking for userid and password
> 
> Is there any reason why ftp.software.ibm.com is asking for a userid 
> and password now? I've rerouted all requests for TSM software to 
> index.storsys.ibm.com, but this one can be flakey at times, too.
> 
> I did try userid=anonymous and password=email, but no luck.
> 
> Gretchen Thiele
> Princeton University