Imp: How to "cd" to a shortcut folder (link) on windows box using FTP from a linuxbox

[Sangal-Arun]

Imp: How to "cd" to a shortcut folder (link) on windows box using FTP from a linuxbox

Hi All,

Windows box: windows.company.com
Linux box : linux.company.com

Now, when I'm doing ftp from linux box to windows box, I'm getting "\" as my `pwd` present working directory. Looks like its my ftproot folder (defined using IIS).

I went to the box (by doing RemoteDesktop onto the windows server) and then to this ftproot (by default) folder on Windows box and manually created a shortcut folder which if pointing to a folder on a particular drive on windows box i.e. drive:\folder1\folder2\folder_home folder. On the windows box, it's easy that if you click on this shortcut folder, it will take you over there and show you data under folder_home folder.

If I ftp to windows server from linux server, I'm seeing the shortcut folder as "shortcut_folder.lnk" in FTP session.

Now my ? is: what command (like "cd") should I run so that I can go to the folder pointed by the shortcut folder. Is it possible you can "change directory" to a windows created shortcut link folder within a FTP session?

[user@build]$ ftp windows.company.com
Connected to windows.company.com.
220 Microsoft FTP Service
500 'AUTH GSSAPI': command not understood
500 'AUTH KERBEROS_V4': command not understood
KERBEROS_V4 rejected as an authentication type
Name (windows.company.com:user): company\aksangal
331 Password required for company\aksangal.
Password:								<<<<<<< gave my ADP password.
230 User company\aksangal logged in.
Remote system type is Windows_NT.
ftp>
ftp> pwd
257 "/" is current directory.
ftp> ls
227 Entering Passive Mode (10,191,138,61,18,130).
125 Data connection already open; Transfer starting.
12-12-07  11:25AM       <DIR>          ORBIT
12-18-08  02:07PM                    477 scm_home_aksangal.lnk
226 Transfer complete.
ftp> dir
227 Entering Passive Mode (10,191,138,61,18,131).
125 Data connection already open; Transfer starting.
12-12-07  11:25AM       <DIR>          ORBIT
12-18-08  02:07PM                    477 scm_home_aksangal.lnk
226 Transfer complete.
ftp>
ftp> cd scm_home_aksangal.lnk
550 scm_home_aksangal.lnk: The directory name is invalid.
ftp>

Kindly advise. Thanks-

[kazler]

Depending on your version of Windows you will need to either:

Create a symlink on your win box to the folder you want to access (vista or win serv 2k8 only I think)

or set a new virtual folder within IIS to point to the relevant folder you want to access