why cute ftp fail to display the files?

[faust2004]

Hi, friends,
I used cute ftp (a graphics ftp tool) on win98
to download file from a hp_ux box, today I find when I entered ftp, it failed to dispaly the file on the hp_ux, although the username and pasword is passed. why?

Thanks
Sunny

[Patrick Wallek]

Have you checked the permissions on the file? Are you sure that the user id you used has permission to see the file?

[Scott Van Kalken · Accepted solution]

Depending on the setup it could also be that your ftp program is not able to execute the ls command.

This is especially the case if it's a virtual root that you're using.

This stumped me a while ago for a few hours when I changed all of our clients over to use virtual roots. The /usr/bin/ls (non dynamic) must be there for them to see anything. The ls must be taken from /sbin/ls. Which confused me until I figured out why.

It's quite confusing at first.

In your case, it could just be that you can't actually exec ls.

Scott.

[faust2004]

scott,
I did as you say, and now it is ok.

Thanks
Sunny