From: csjasnoch@...
Date: 2005-07-19T06:55:56+09:00
Subject: FTP problems on windows

I created a script to send a receive event scripts for a pixord video
server.
I created an FTP session class which contains the following def's

def initialize(ip)
        begin
            @serv = Net::FTP.new(ip)

            @serv.login(user=*****,password =*****)
            #get into Sys dir
            @serv.chdir('Sys')

        rescue
            puts "Invalid IP set. ip set as #{ip}\n"
        end
    end

    def get_curr(filename)



       loadfile = @serv.gettextfile("scr00.txt")#get the event file
stored
                                                #in the pixord server

        # change the name of the file to given file name
        File.rename("scr00.txt", filename)


    end

    def put_curr(filename)

        #change name to pixord event name

	begin
        File.rename(filename, "scr00.txt")

	rescue

	puts "file name problem #{filename}\n"

	end
        @serv.puttextfile("scr00.txt")
    end

#####################

Everything works fine with my other implimentations (on OSX). However,
when on a windows machine I can not view anything in the server. The
connection is being made though.

To test what was going on I used irb on Windows (I have tried XP and
2000) and entered the following

require 'net/ftp'
ftp = Net::FTP.new(ip)
ftp.login(user=user_var,password=pass_var)

#UP TO HERE OK (I think.. no errror or anything)
ftp.chdir('Sys')

ftp.gettextfile("scr00.txt") #here is where problem occurs

###########END CODE

When I run from a Mac OSX machine I can access fine, but from the
windows machines I am getting "Net:FTPTempError 425 Can't Open Data
Connection"
I am not exactly sure how to deal with this. If they are on different
subnets how do I handle this. I am pretty sure the Mac is also but for
some reason is handling it OK. I am a bit baffled. Any help is
appreciated. Thanks in advance.

-Collin