I have been working with a local installation of IIS to
see if I could figure out a configuration that allows a
unix machine to perform a "get" command with an absolute
path. So far, no luck.

Once a login is done I try to
run "get .../.../..../.../file.txt

(.../.../...) are just subdirectories.

Then I get the return "no such file or directory"
The files are there. I can "CD" to the directory and get
the file ok, just can't us "get" and an absolute path. It
will work from other windows systems but not from a unix
system.

It it the windows setting or something with the ftp on the
unix system?

HELP

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Usually, when something works from all FTP clients except one or two, it's
worth looking at the behaviour of the FTP clients as a likely cause of the
problem.

Most command-line FTP clients allow you to set a "debug" and/or "verbose"
mode, in which they will display commands sent and responses received. In
the Windows FTP client, ftp.exe, for instance, you can run "ftp -d" to
enter debug mode (it's already in verbose mode), so that you can see
exactly the commands and responses. You'll probably find similar options
for your Unix FTP client.

That will then allow you to see exactly what's different, and hopefully
show why this is failing.

One hint on Unix is to avoid any use of the "\" (backslash) character, as
it means something different there.

Alun.
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