Rebecca> This is the error message. I get a request for password Rebecca> and tried my email address. That didn't work. I thought Rebecca> the CVS password was Zawinski, but don't remember seeing Rebecca> a password for the update packages command. Rebecca, it looks to me as if you tried logging in with username rebecca. You should be able to get in as follows: M-x dired RET /ftp＠ftp.xemacs.org:/pub RET Here's what my ftp buffer, * "*ftp ftp(a)ftp.xemacs.org*&quot; 2413 efs has to say: open ftp.xemacs.org Connected to gwyn.tux.org. 220 gwyn.tux.org FTP server (Version wu-2.4.2-academ[BETA-18](1) Mon Aug 3 19:17:20 EDT 1998) ready. quote user "ftp" 331 Guest login ok, send your complete e-mail address as password. quote pass Turtle Power! <lines deleted by Adrian> 230- 230-Please read the file README 230- it was last modified on Thu Sep 24 21:23:03 1998 - 53 days ago 230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply. hash Hash mark printing On (2048 bytes/hash mark). quote pwd 257 "/" is current directory. quote syst 215 UNIX Type: L8 ls "-al /pub/." /tmp/efsaDAs1I 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls. 226 Transfer complete. 3331 bytes received in 0.84 seconds (3.96 Kbytes/sec) quote site idle 200 Current IDLE time limit is 900 seconds; max 7200 See http://cvs.xemacs.org for details on CVS procedures. HTH, Adrian Rebecca> open ftp.xemacs.org Connected to gwyn.tux.org. 220 Rebecca> gwyn.tux.org FTP server (Version Rebecca> wu-2.4.2-academ[BETA-18](1) Mon Aug 3 19:17:20 EDT 1998) Rebecca> ready. quote user "rebecca" Remote system type is UNIX. Rebecca> Using binary mode to transfer files. ftp> 331 Password required for rebecca. quote pass Turtle Power! Rebecca> 530 Login incorrect. ftp> quote user "rebecca" Rebecca> 331 Password required for rebecca. ftp> quote pass Turtle Power! Rebecca> 500 'PASS': command not understood. ftp> -- Adrian Aichner European Design Center Teradyne GmbH Semiconductor Test Group Telephone +49/89/41861(0)-208 Dingolfinger Strasse 2 Fax +49/89/41861-217 D-81673 MUENCHEN E-mail adrian.aichner(a)teradyne.com