Introducing the OCLC EMEA FTP server

As of August 11th, the OCLC EMEA FTP server will be located on a different system.
The new FTP server will have several advantages.

  o the TCP/IP address of the FTP server will not change - you can still use
    the name ftp.pica.nl. However, if your DNS has not been updated yet, you
    can use the numeric equivalent 192.87.104.19

  o the new FTP server uses a different method of authorisation. It is no
    longer necessary to first log in as "anonymous" and change to a 
    particular group. In the new setup, the group names are used as 
    usernames when logging in. Groups represent a product.

    Below is an overview of all groups :
       cbspsi         gum            iport         lbs3
       lbs4           lbsmaint       ouf           sybase
       sybupdate      tolk2          trainmod      winibw

  o anonymous access will remain an option and will be used for those files
    unrelated to a product.

  o the FTP server can also be accessed using a web-browser 
    (http://ftp.pica.nl). This does not change the method of authorisation.

  o mailing-lists are used for password distribution of FTP accounts. In 
    order to receive new FTP group passwords for certain products, you must
    subscribe to the mailing-list for that particular group.

    If you are currently a mailing-list subscriber to any of the FTP 
    groups mentioned above, it is not necessary to re-subscribe to that
    group. In other words, current subscriptions remain valid.

All FTP server related information is available for downloading from the new
FTP server. Connect to ftp.pica.nl and log in as user "anonymous" (without the
quotes). Below is a list of all available documents:

   announcement.txt     announcement of the new FTP server
   authorisation.txt    authorisation information
   mailing-lists.txt    FTP mailing-lists information

Contact the OCLC EMEA Servicedesk (support-nl@oclc.org) if you encounter any
problems using the FTP server.