[monkpea]

When I ftp into my panther from my pc laptop using the command prompt all seems to go well untill I try and open the files. Very small files seem to be ok, but larger ones are totally scrambled. pdfs don't open, and jpgs are totally messed up with the only similarity with the original files being the colours.

Anyone know what's going on?

[SMacTech]

Have you tried just using Windows file sharing and connecting from your PC?
I routinely access files from my XP box from my Mac and vice-versa without any problems. Many of the files are large PDFs, .doc and .xls files.

[wadesworld]

Are you changing the transfer mode to binary before transferring the files?

Wade

[monkpea]

I am away from my mac at the moment, so can't turn the windows file sharing on. Perhaps it's possible through ssh but I've found that using "ftp voyager" works flawlessly, so problem solved!

I have no idea how to change the settings in the dos ftp prog, but your probably right about binary mode...

Thanks for your help.

[absmiths]

Originally posted by monkpea:
I am away from my mac at the moment, so can't turn the windows file sharing on. Perhaps it's possible through ssh but I've found that using "ftp voyager" works flawlessly, so problem solved!

I have no idea how to change the settings in the dos ftp prog, but your probably right about binary mode...

Thanks for your help.

No settings need be changed. The bin command switches the mode to binary:

Code:
[smith@shrapnel ~]$ ftp 10.1.100.201
Connected to 10.1.100.201.
220 WebAuthorize Microsoft FTP Service (Version 5.0).
500 'AUTH GSSAPI': command not understood
500 'AUTH KERBEROS_V4': command not understood
KERBEROS_V4 rejected as an authentication type
Name (10.1.100.201:smith): nnnnnnn
331 Password required for nnnnnn.
Password:
230 User nnnnnn logged in.
Remote system type is Windows_NT.
ftp> ls
227 Entering Passive Mode (10,1,100,201,16,80).
125 Data connection already open; Transfer starting.
-rwxrwxrwx   1 owner    group         2067758 Dec 18  9:32 host.ear
226 Transfer complete.
ftp> get host.ear
local: host.ear remote: host.ear
227 Entering Passive Mode (10,1,100,201,16,83).
125 Data connection already open; Transfer starting.
WARNING! 7835 bare linefeeds received in ASCII mode
File may not have transferred correctly.
226 Transfer complete.
2067758 bytes received in 0.81 seconds (2.5e+03 Kbytes/s)

ftp> bin

200 Type set to I.

ftp> get host.ear
local: host.ear remote: host.ear
227 Entering Passive Mode (10,1,100,201,16,86).
125 Data connection already open; Transfer starting.
226 Transfer complete.
2067758 bytes received in 0.18 seconds (1.1e+04 Kbytes/s)
ftp> bye 
221