Shell Programming and Scripting

apologies yes that is what I tried, I can connect successfully A -> B

it is B-C that is failing

I can connect directly to B via telnet then ftp to C (just not via ftp proxy)?!

Looking into "rsh" at the minute, to see if it works.

In this case the ftpd on B is not configured to be used an 'ftp proxy' - I don't know what's missing.
I could 'ftp proxy' between 3 Solaris boxes in my lab and have been using this 'trick' on a couple of projects.
Sorry, I guess the 'proxy' is out the window - unless somebody knows the culprit....

Ooo light at the end of the tunnel...

i got Ftp proxy working (ish)

Following the same commands earlier but using IP address I get this error message:
"Already connected to serverB IP Address, use close first"

then as before:

Code:

ftp serverB
user  blahblah
password  blahblah
proxy open serverC

not working, I attempted a different IP address in a range specifed for my firewall, it worked. When I tried the ip address which was specified for server B (and C's) firewall it fails...its a networking issue which is causing this to fail.

I need to try and get rsh working - Can anyone give me examples of how to use this, specifically from command line for testing then I can implement into a script like the kind user showed. Will rsh be able to execute an FTP script - "ftpscript1" as a normal user would?

i appreciate your help btw

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going to ignore ftp now.

ssh access seems the most likely or a cronjob (can someone help with a script)..also ssh always prompts for password -need to avoid that.