ftp command

[Dennis Malen]

I also did a search of the C Drive which found nothing.

Dennis Malen
516.479.5912
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dennis Malen" <dmalen at malen.com>
To: "Kenneth Brody" <kenbrody at spamcop.net>; "Ken Cole" 
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Cc: "filepro" <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>; "pmahler" 
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Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 11:54 AM
Subject: Re: ftp command


> 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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