UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi,

I'm suppose to upload a file to my company's client server. I used kftp grabber in my PCLinuxOS to do the file transfer.

The client has given a username and password to upload the file in their server. When I log in to the server, I cannot access root or home directory, nor can I access the users directory (sub-dir of home).

I've accessed the client's server with the user name myobabss and a password for that user. I only can access the myobabss user in the users directory. I can't access any other users in the users directory.

I assume this is because the client has only allowed for us to access that directory?

But when I try to upload a file to that directory (myobabss), I can see the word transferring file appearing in kftp grabber, but when the transfer is complete, the file is not there.

Why is this and how can I solve it?

Pls help.

Most FTP servers support restricting users to certain directories, and FTP directory structures in general do not necessarily represent any part of the real structure behind it. By the way, what would you be doing snooping around in other users directories anyways?

As for the disappearing file: check with your customer if they maybe received it anyways. It's possible that they've got an automated job in the background that grabs the file for processing as soon as it's done uploading, thus removing it from the upload directory.