Question

Following various guides around the net, I put together a batch file that should upload a .zip to our central file server. However, If I use “ftp -n -s:ftpup.dat 108.174.61.82 20” it doesn’t work with the port 20 added to the host. I have also tried “ftp -n -s:ftpup.dat” then “open 108.174.61.82 20” on the next line which also fails. What exactly am I doing wrong?

cd MySQL
@echo off
echo user backups>ftpup.dat
echo passwordhere>>ftpup.dat
echo cd /MySQL>>ftpup.dat
echo binary>>ftpup.dat
echo put MYSQL-%location%.%backuptime%.zip>>ftpup.dat
echo quit>>ftpup.dat
ftp -n -s:ftpup.dat serveriphere 20
del ftpup.dat

Answer 1

Are you running FTP server or port 20?

Telnet serveriphere 20 to check if the port is listening, maybe you have
it running on default port 21

PS: Is it raw ftp protocol?. Maybe It is using SFTP or FTPS

EDIT: Try with

ftp -s:ftpup.dat serveriphere 20

Remove the -n autologin flag

Try with this:

Echo ~UsrName~> ftpcmd.txt
echo ~myPass~>> ftpcmd.txt
echo binary>> ftpcmd.txt
echo prompt n>>ftpcmd.txt
echo mget *.exe>> ftpcmd.txt
echo bye >> ftpcmd.txt
ftp -s:ftpcmd.txt ~ftpAddress~
del ftpcmd.txt