FTP rename fails with unix servers dotnet 2.0

28 Aug 2006 8:25 AM

Marty

I'm writing an app to upload/download via FTP using VS2005.
I am using the FTP Client Library for .NET 2.0 by Howard Richards:
http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/FtpClient.asp
Upload download works. but when trying to rename a file with GetResponse it
errors with error
500 (Syntax error, command unrecognized). This only happens with unix FTP
servers - windows ones work perfectly.

I am trying to rename the files before downloading, to avoid contention -
attempting to dowload a file before it has finished being uploaded. (if
someone could suggest another way to avoid this contention, I wouldn't need
the rename command).
I have seen someone else with hte exact same problem, but it hasn' been
resolved: http://groups.google.co.uk/group/microsoft.public.dotnet.general/browse_thread/thread/17a43b1cae83129c/456d4f335f0ba60c?lnk=gst&q=ftp+issue&rnum=1#456d4f335f0ba60c
for the time being I am going to use a third party tool, but I'd rather have
the source of any code I use ...

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Marty

29 Aug 2006 2:42 AM

Luke Zhang [MSFT]

Hello marty,

This issue seems to be related to the internal implment of the FTP Client
Library. I suggest you may contact the author of the FTP Client Library, to
see if he has any comments here, for example, if the FTP Client Library
supports rename function.

Sincerely,

Luke Zhang

Microsoft Online Community Support
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