RE: FTP to a Windows server with periods and underlines in a folder name

Thanks Dennis. Already did go direct to the server with remote console as the FTP user and could browse anywhere I wanted in explorer. It is not iSeries only. It does the same using core-ftp from my PC. Server is Windows 2008.

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dennis Lovelady
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Subject: RE: FTP to a Windows server with periods and underlines in a folder name

First thing I would try to do, is to see if this is unique to the i. I'm
betting not. Try this same action from a PC, and see what happens.

If (when?) that fails, then I would go to the server in question (what OS
does that server use, by the way?). Get to that directory, and try the same
cd command from there. Same failure? Yup, that'd be because of control
characters or other unprintables in at least one of the directory names.

Dennis Lovelady
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I am FTPing from an iSeries to a Windows server to copy some files. I
have done this many times before without a problem. On this particular
server the developers of the application decided to use periods(.) and
underlines(_) as part of folder names. So a path on the windows server
might be

apphome/CF.SOURCE/_HOLD_/filename

I can get to the home directory of apphome and do a ls command and see
the CF.SOURCE folder but when I try to do a "cd CF.SOURCE" it says it
is not found. I tried cd "CF.SOURCE" and cd 'CF.SOURCE' and nothing
works. Just for fun at had our Windows admin make the home folder for
the user the CF.SOURCE folder and I can then get inside that folder but
can't cd into the _HOLD_ folder. It is not an authority issue as the
same username/password I am using for the FTP can remote to the server
and see all the folders and files. I think this must be an FTP issue
but I don't think it is unique to iSeries FTP but still hoping someone
here might have some suggestions.