ftp inside a unix script to an nt server

[Matt Szary]

I am trying to ftp from inside of a unix script to an nt machine. I use the following syntax
ftp $sysname
user "$username" "$passwd"
put filename PATH
bye


I have tried this numerous different ways I am unable to get past the login into the nt server . When I run the ftp command from the command line everything works perfect. Does anyone know the best way to do this?

[John Palmer]

You need to use ftp -n from within a script to disable 'auto-login'.

See man ftp.

Regards,
John

[Rick Garland]

There are numerous posts regarding FTP and the automation of. Can do a search for FTP within the forums.

Here is short (not complete) script that should help you get started:

ftp -n -v $HOST << ENDFTP
user
getput
ENDFTP

Lots of additional options can be placed into the script. This would be a minimum to get working.

[John Palmer]

You will also have to supply the ftp commands either from a file or a 'here' document:-

ftp -n $sysname << EOD


EOD

[Tom Danzig]

You can try this inside your script:

ftp $sysname << EOD
user "$username" "$passwd"
cd PATH
put filename
quit
EOD

[James R. Ferguson]

Kim:

Specify ftp -n

For a good range of examples and options in constructing ftp scipts, see:

http://my1.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,1150,0x00517e990647d4118fee0090279cd0f9,00.html

...JRF...

[Tracey · Accepted solution]

You can also create a .netrc file in the home direcotory of the Unix user that contains a line such as:

machine login password

words not in <> are literals, the <> fill in with you parameters. The .netrc file MUST be permits of read only for the owner chmod 400 .netrc

[Alan Riggs]

I definitely recommend using a .netrc file rather than encoding the user and password designations within the script. If anybody other than the effective user will have read access ot the script you have just compromised the userid & passwd on your NT domain.

You can still use the inline redirection (here document) to encode the file transfer commands, etc.

[Tracey]

I forgot that this system doesn't like backslashes between "domain" and user ID there should be two (2) backslashes instead of one.