ftp command

[Dennis Malen]

Ken Brody, Ken Cole, Mike Schwartz, Brian White and Faisal Karim,

Thank you all for each and every one of your responses.

It is obvious that perhaps most of the problem is on the Windows side. So I 
will follow up on each of your suggestions and report back.

Faisal had a great suggestion of trying "cd \" which gave me a response of: 
(remote-directory). I assume by that response that I was at the top of the 
c: directory. From there I could no go further when I tried additional 
variations of directories to CD to.

I then executed "put rabackn.wp" and received: local: rabackn.wp remote: 
rabackn.wp. I am assuming this placed that file on the Windows server 
somewhere.

I then went into the command prompt on the Windows box and I could not find 
the file that was transferred. I looked in the \ directory, Documents and 
Settings and Dennis.

My next step is to play with the FTP file on the Windows side with the 
parameters as the rest of you have suggested.

Thanks again!



Dennis Malen
516.479.5912
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenneth Brody" <kenbrody at spamcop.net>
To: "Ken Cole" <ken.m.cole at gmail.com>
Cc: "filepro" <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 13, 2009 11:12 PM
Subject: Re: ftp command


> Ken Cole wrote:
>> Dennis,
>>
>> Try something simple first.
>>
>> Create a c:\tmp directory and see if you can cd to it.
>>
>> Since you are in AIX also try replacing \ with / as Windows, at least for
>> several versions, I believe, understands both.
>
> I was going to suggest the same thing.  Note, however, that Windows, and
> MS-DOS have always accepted both, ever since MS-DOS 2.0 added subdirectory
> support.
>
> It's also quite possible that the Windows ftp server only allows access to
> some directories, similar to how a Unix ftp server may chroot() to change
> the root directory as seen by the ftp connection.  On that case, it may
> simply not be possible to get to the "documents and settings" directory
> without some reconfiguring of the ftp server.
>
> -- 
> Kenneth Brody
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