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s3ntinel
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 Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 9:10 pm Post subject: ftp clients and ftp:// protocol |
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Hi, this may be obvious but:
I have net-ftp/ftp 0.17-r3 installed, and want to connect via ftp to a server.
If I try
after username/password it connects fine,
but if I try
| Code: | ftp ftp://my.server.name
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ftp ftp://myname:password@my.server.name
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it rejects with ftp ftp://my.server.name: Unknown host
I'm also now trying to use KFTPGrabber which won't allow me to use anything but this syntax; it seems that this too seems to be suffering the same problems.
Do I need a different package? Any ideas?
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Monkeh
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Location: England
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Because, perhaps, ftp doesn't need to be told to use the ftp protocol because it only uses the ftp protocol?
myname:password@my.server.name should work fine. |
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s3ntinel
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| Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 9:24 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, tried that. It produces
| Code: | | ftp: myname:password@my.server.name: Unknown server error |
And KFTPGrabber really didn't like me modifying the connection string...
Incidentally, the server replies with
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220 Welcome to the VSFTP service on Server F1. |
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