HP rp8400 MP user wants to performed firmware upgrade using Windows
box on XP. But when he telnet to the rp8400 MP from the Windows box
and use the ‘fw’ command, then an error message appear:
“**** Firmware Updating MP 0 ****
Failed to open Ftp socket
FTP connection failed”
To resolve the similar problem like above, here’s how to connect
Windows laptop to MP and do firmware upgrade you can follow:
Go to Start => Control Panel
Open Administrative Tools (better switching it to the classic view)
Open “Internet Information Services”
Expand the tree on the left, and select “Default FTP Site”.
Now you need to make sure that the Play button at the top is already
running by showed greyed out. If it is Black, then click it to start
the ftp server.
The root of your FTP server will be in C:\Inetpub\ftproot so if you
copy the firmware to C:\Inetpub\ftproot\firmware you will specify the
directory as /firmware on the rp8400 when you are doing the FW
upgrade.
In case you can’t see the Internet Information Services, you can try
this following:
Go to Start => Control Panel
Open “Add/Remove Programs”
Click “Add/Remove Windows Components”
Click on “Internet Information Services” and click “Details…”
Check the “File Transfer Protocol (FTP) Service”
Click “OK”
Click “Next”
Here might you’ll be prompted for the Windows CD. Just follow the
basic instruction and you’ll be done.