FTP issues with Vista Home Basic

Hello,

I have a general fileserver (ubuntu using proftpd FTP server) on a local
network with 2 machines (XP), a Vista dell laptop, and an XP dell laptop.

The 3 XP machines have no problem establishing an FTP connection (either via
dos prompt FTP open command or FTP client like SmartFTP).

However when Vista laptop connects, server opens and then closes the
connection.

I disabled the firewall/mcafee firewall on Vista and same result -
connection opens and closes.

I could not find any posts on this issue. Ideas? Suggestions?

Thanks,
SY

I recently bought a new laptop and put Vista Home Premium on it. My older laptop is XP. I have an app which I developed which does FTP which send Postscript files to a Postscript printer after it prepares them.

On XP, the app worked fine. On Vista, the connect to the server succeeded, but the upload command failed. I tried Firefox, Explorer, and Filezilla to make the transfer - they all failed as well; The problem seems to be in some of the cases (Firefox, FileZilla) that the FTP server on the printer does not allow the DIR command; in other cases it seems that the server connection opens and closes immediately.

When I went searching, I saw on MSDN that Visual Studio 2005 has open unworkaroundable issues with FTP:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa972193.aspx

so I changed the way my app sends files to the printer, and am waiting for SP1.


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I recently bought a new laptop and put Vista Home Premium on it. My older laptop is XP. I have an app which I developed which does FTP which send Postscript files to a Postscript printer after it prepares them.

On XP, the app worked fine. On Vista, the connect to the server succeeded, but the upload command failed. I tried Firefox, Explorer, and Filezilla to make the transfer - they all failed as well; The problem seems to be in some of the cases (Firefox, FileZilla) that the FTP server on the printer does not allow the DIR command; in other cases it seems that the server connection opens and closes immediately.

When I went searching, I saw on MSDN that Visual Studio 2005 has open unworkaroundable issues with FTP:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa972193.aspx

so I changed the way my app sends files to the printer, and am waiting for SP1.


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"in other cases it seems that the server connection opens and closes
immediately."
That's precisely the problem I have (minus the VS2005 part of course).

Turning on the debug trace level in ubuntu/proftpd yields no specifc errors
(e.g. doesn't recognize commands, etc).

"Steven Burck" wrote:

> I recently bought a new laptop and put Vista Home Premium on it. My older laptop is XP. I have an app which I developed which does FTP which send Postscript files to a Postscript printer after it prepares them.
>
> On XP, the app worked fine. On Vista, the connect to the server succeeded, but the upload command failed. I tried Firefox, Explorer, and Filezilla to make the transfer - they all failed as well; The problem seems to be in some of the cases (Firefox, FileZilla) that the FTP server on the printer does not allow the DIR command; in other cases it seems that the server connection opens and closes immediately.
>
> When I went searching, I saw on MSDN that Visual Studio 2005 has open unworkaroundable issues with FTP:
> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa972193.aspx
>
> so I changed the way my app sends files to the printer, and am waiting for SP1.
>
>
> EggHeadCafe.com - .NET Developer Portal of Choice
> http://www.eggheadcafe.com
>