passwd less ftp to Windows NT

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applmgr:hostname:::/usr/bin/ftp 24.106.161.51
Connected to 24.106.161.51.
220 Microsoft FTP Service
331 Password required for alcoaebs.
230 User alcoaebs logged in.
Remote system type is Windows_NT.
ftp>

i am observing as soon as i enter "ftp 24.106.161.51" the ftp session is on get to the prompt as shown below. ASFIK,there isn't any configuration from UNIX side we did to make that happen.

any suggetion how else that can happen? Any thing from windows side?

Source server is HP-UX 11.23

[Tim Nelson]

password auth is a method of the "server"

with that said there are a couple choices.

1) script the entry of username and pass in your unix script.

2) get a more robust FTP server/service that would allow auth keys, like SSHD.

3) negate the need for FTP and share the drive from the Windows server to the UNIX server using Samba

4) maybe implement LDAP for authentication ( lot of work just to FTP some files)

[Dennis Handly · Accepted solution]

Do you have a .netrc file?