Shell Script to ftp from windows server

shilpa.rajput · #1 (**permalink**) 11-06-2007

Hello All,

I've to write a shell script to transfer some files to/from windows server.

I can put & get files simply by doing ftp but need to automate this.

So I tried for this -.

HOST=.hostname
USER='username'
PASSWD='***'

ftp -n $HOST <<END_SCRIPT
quote USER $USER
quote PASS $PASSWD
mput new*
quit

END_SCRIPT

as per search on this topic.

But I'm getting the error :

'AUTH GSSAPI': command not understood
'AUTH KERBEROS_V4': command not understood
KERBEROS_V4 rejected as an authentication type
User ced-aswhec-ftp cannot log in.
mput new.sh? Please login with USER and PASS.
Passive mode refused. Turning off passive mode.
Please login with USER and PASS.
ftp: bind: Address already in use
mput newest.sh? Please login with USER and PASS.
mput newestt.sh? Please login with USER and PASS.

Does anyone have idea what exactly it mean? It's not accepting the valid username & password provided. Even let me know where the .netrc comes in picture...

Thanks in advance.

- Ships

porter · #2 (**permalink**) 11-06-2007

Put the user and password in your $HOME/.netrc file.

Code:

machine hostnameofmachine
login username
password passwordstring

Code:

chmod 0600 $HOME/.netrc

also, use "prompt" before using "mput" otherwise it may ask for confirmation.

shilpa.rajput · #3 (**permalink**) 11-06-2007

Thanks Porter, for the valuable suggestion. Got to know the concept n use of .netrc file.
But still i'm getting the same error. Is there anything that need to add to my script code for making the script to use the .netrc file or by default it looks into that only?

Regards,
Shilpa

porter · #4 (**permalink**) 11-06-2007

Quote:

Originally Posted by shilpa.rajput

Is there anything that need to add to my script code for making the script to use the .netrc file or by default it looks into that only?

do

Code:

ls -ld $HOME/.netrc

so we can see the permissions

post exactly what you are doing and results (we should now not see anything about username/password).

what system are you using? post result of "uname -a"

shilpa.rajput · #5 (**permalink**) 11-06-2007

Yeah, Porter,
The system I'm using is GNU/Linux

& the code now goes like :

Quote:

ftp -n hostname <<END_SCRIPT
prompt
mput new*
quit

END_SCRIPT

Now I'm having the hostname entry in .netrc file having permissions as

-rw------- i.e.as per the "chmod 0600 $HOME/.netrc" mentioned by u.

The result is as :

Code:

'AUTH GSSAPI': command not understood
'AUTH KERBEROS_V4': command not understood
KERBEROS_V4 rejected as an authentication type
User ced-aswhec-ftp cannot log in.
Login failed.
Interactive mode off.
Please login with USER and PASS.
Passive mode refused.  Turning off passive mode.
Please login with USER and PASS.
ftp: bind: Address already in use

Even tried by using

Quote:

ftp -n 160.95.116.11 <<END_SCRIPT
user username passwordtring
prompt
mput new*
quit
END_SCRIPT

But came up with same result.

Thanks n Regards,
Shilpa

porter · #6 (**permalink**) 11-06-2007

You should just be able to do

Code:

ftp server-name

where server-name is exactly the same string as in $HOME/.netrc

Yes the attributes of $HOME/.netrc look right.

When it fails, is it printing the name of the user as read from $HOME/.netrc.

Don't use "-n", this disables the auto-login.

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