I can connect to an ftp server directly from a command prompt without a problem but can't make the connection via FinalBuilder's FTP Connect action. There is a proxy involved. The procedure via the command promp would be:-
I've entered the above info in the ftp connection action in the 'Server & Authentication' and 'FTP Proxy' tabs but it fails to connect. eg. 'Error connection to : ftp.xx.zzz.com, must be connected to remote server'. The only filed that isn't obvious is 'Porxy Type' on the 'FTP Proxy' tab but I've tried every one of those options without the success. It's frustrating as I would like to use FB's FTP actions even though I could just call a .bat file that made the connection. Any suggestions for getting FTP Connect working?
Well, it’s anonymous@ftp.xx.zzz.com. If you imagine the ftp stuff in my first post is the .txt file input to an ftp session, the first level authentication is via ‘user uuuuuu’ and the password, ‘ppppp’. To make progress from there, you would need to do ‘user anonymous@ftp.xx.zzz.com’ followed by the next input, ‘@blabla.com’. Once that has authenticated, you would need to input the original user again… ‘user uuuuuu’ and the password.
Vincent, We’re not using a proxy product. Anyone could connect to the remote ftp server if they new the usernames and passwords - as per the info in my first post. I don’t understand it fully as I haven’t seen anything like it before but the other organisation we are downloading data from seem to ahve implemented another level of security consisting of an extra username (anonymous@ftp.xx.zzz.com) and password. The FTP commands in my first post are exactly what appear in the FTP command file (depersonalised). As I said, I can run it ok as a .bat file plus the ftp command file and call the .bat file from FinalBuilder. I would rather use the Finalbuilder FTP actions.