Why can't I ftp my homework in!?

[Lazy8s]

http://www.valdosta.edu/~wrconkli/French/wtf_ftp.jpg

Here is exactly what I do and the order. I am in the right directory in the FTP. I know I only have rx permissions on the directory but the ls -al should confirm the upload by showing the permissons on my file. Also, why is it saying chmod is an invlid command?? I haven't ftp'd anything like this for class in a long time, the last few years my classes have generally been papers or large projects that were presented so I admit I am a little rusty on the commands but it feels like it should be correct...

 

[2Xtreme21]

Don't bother with the commands. For what you're doing, open up an IE browser and do it that way.

 

[vi edit]

command line? People still do that?

Why not just use filezilla?

 

[Lazy8s]

I have tried using ssh but for some reason it hangs because of lack of read permissions. :-/

 

[KLin]

CuteFTP FTW!!

 

[hanoverphist]

or leechFTP FTW!

 

[Lazy8s]

I tried opening in an internet explorer page and it takes me to some crazy default folder and I can't figure out how to get to /class/comp6370

:-/

well...it's not that I can't figure it out but I can't. I have followed all of the options off the default folder and it says access denied to all of them.

 

[James Bond]

Originally posted by: KLin
CuteFTP FTW!!

+1

 

[Hyperblaze]

Originally posted by: vi_edit
command line? People still do that?

Why not just use filezilla?

and what is wrong with the command line?

it happens to be one of the most powerful tools in any operating system.

 

[James Bond]

Originally posted by: Hyperblaze

Originally posted by: vi_edit
command line? People still do that?

Why not just use filezilla?

and what is wrong with the command line?

it happens to be one of the most powerful tools in any operating system.

It's just over complicating a simple task. He's probably going to spend an hour trying to get that file on there when he could have done it with one drag.

 

[Lazy8s]

Like I said, for some reason with the visual ones I can't navigate to the directory. I don't know if the university somehow has something blocked or what.


Anywho, I fixed the problem. The file was correctly uploaded and perhaps if I hadn't been trying to execute unix commands from an FTP prompt I wouldn't have looked like such a moron. Once I SSH'd into the server chmod and ls -al worked as intended.

 

[Hyperblaze]

Originally posted by: Tizyler

Originally posted by: Hyperblaze

Originally posted by: vi_edit
command line? People still do that?

Why not just use filezilla?

and what is wrong with the command line?

it happens to be one of the most powerful tools in any operating system.

It's just over complicating a simple task. He's probably going to spend an hour trying to get that file on there when he could have done it with one drag.

heh....and what happens when you need to get a file on a computer which is behind a firewall with has no ports forwarded?

a gui ftp client won't help you in that case.

basically what I'm getting at is it's never a bad thing to actually know how to do things manually, because you never know when you'll be forced into console mode.

I grew up in it and never let go of it.

It's too useful.

 

[Throwmeabone]

I don't know how to help you, but I think you're misusing the term "ATOT effect."

 

[vi edit]

Originally posted by: Hyperblaze

Originally posted by: Tizyler

Originally posted by: Hyperblaze

Originally posted by: vi_edit
command line? People still do that?

Why not just use filezilla?

and what is wrong with the command line?

it happens to be one of the most powerful tools in any operating system.

It's just over complicating a simple task. He's probably going to spend an hour trying to get that file on there when he could have done it with one drag.

heh....and what happens when you need to get a file on a computer which is behind a firewall with has no ports forwarded?

a gui ftp client won't help you in that case.

basically what I'm getting at is it's never a bad thing to actually know how to do things manually, because you never know when you'll be forced into console mode.

I grew up in it and never let go of it.

It's too useful.

Uh, just because I'm curious, what exactly *could* you do from a command prompt to get around a firewall? Assuming you weren't the admin of the FTP server and could set it to host/listen on something like port 80, there isn't much you can do.

If an FTP server is set to port 21, and the firewall you are behind is blocking port 21 traffic you are pretty much screwed. I personally don't know of any magic commands that can work around that.

 

[ColdFusion718]

Email it to yourself and then just recreate the file remotely, at least that's what i used to do. Or you can always use CuteFTP ASCII mode.

 

[George P Burdell]

Originally posted by: Throwmeabone
I don't know how to help you, but I think you're misusing the term "ATOT effect."

Agreed. Bring out the torches and pitchforks!

 

[Pepsi90919]

you're trying to get too fancy with DOS ftp. it can interpret a couple unix commands but that's it.

you're not gonna be able to use 'ls -al' but it knows what 'dir' and 'ls' are.
and your chmod command would be: quote site chmod 777 /whatever/directory/file.ext