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Alex
3/21/2005 8:01:04 AM
When trying to ftp an Access Database, the FTP "times out". I am using a
2003 Web Server. I have tried renaming the Database with a .pdf extention
(so I could rename the database after the transfer) to no avail. If I zip
the database, I have no problems, other than I can't unzip the database
without remotely logging into the server.

In addition, when I am inside my network, I have mapped a network drive to
the server, and run into the same issue. I have removed ALL security to the
Alex
3/21/2005 11:55:07 AM
Thank you very much for your help!

I normally use Absolute FTP as my ftp client, but for all intensive
purposes, I used ftp.exe in order to document the process. the following is
the process I undertake in order to copy the .mdb from my server to my local
machine:

C:\>ftp
ftp> open www.fqdn.com
Connected to www.fqdn.com.
220 Microsoft FTP Service
User (kcmetroweb.com:(none)): alex
331 Password required for alex.
Password:
230-I see you found my FTP site.
230 User alex logged in.
ftp> cd kcmetroweb/research/fpdb
250 CWD command successful.
ftp> bin
200 Type set to I.
ftp> get research.mdb "c:\copyResearch.mdb"
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for research.mdb(188416 bytes).
426 Connection closed; transfer aborted.
ftp: 20700 bytes received in 60.43Seconds 0.34Kbytes/sec.
ftp>_


Please note that I am unable to copy from, or copy to. I initially thought
it was an issue of permissions, but as you may be able to determine, the
transfer process begins (some of the file is copied) and subsequently
terminates. In addition, I am able to copy files of other formats to and
from the aforementioned directory. Once again, thank you for your
assistance...

Alex

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Alex
3/21/2005 12:47:04 PM
The database is the backend for an ASP application (adhoc web survey). There
are no .ldb files in the directory so the best I can figure is that the .mdb
is not open. I am running some ASP.NET applications on my site, would that
create issues for a basic ASP web app? Permissions are set for this
directory as my entire site, but this is the only directory in which I have
this issue (that I am aware of at this time). I'm only 4 files deep from the
ROOT, so I don't imagine that is the issue. And the app runs fine, I just
can't ftp the .mdb. I know it's got to be something simple, as I can't find
any other issues on the net where people ran into this problem. Knowing that
the issue is that easy frustrates me even more...

Thank you...

Alex

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Alex
3/21/2005 2:37:03 PM
No. It's high speed. Please note that in my example I replaced my domain
name with fqdn (I just wanted to make sure I mentioned that somewhere).

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Alun Jones [MSFT]
3/21/2005 4:13:06 PM
Looks like you've got something in your network that is resetting the
connection. [Stunning observation, I know]

I'm wondering if there's still a control connection valid at the point you
notice the "426" error appearing. Can you do other commands at that point
("pwd" is always a safe one to try)?

Alun.
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jeff.nospam NO[at]SPAM zina.com
3/21/2005 7:24:42 PM
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 08:01:04 -0800, "Alex"
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These may or may not be related. Try the FTP command line client and
post the result codes.

jeff.nospam NO[at]SPAM zina.com
3/21/2005 8:24:13 PM
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 11:55:07 -0800, "Alex"
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Is it possible the file exists with read only permission? Or is open
on the destination system?

Jeff

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jeff.nospam NO[at]SPAM zina.com
3/21/2005 9:50:14 PM
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 12:47:04 -0800, "Alex"
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Hopefully when Alun wanders by he'll take a look at this. It does
look like you're getting a pretty low transfer rate, is this a dial-up
connection?

Jeff



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Alex
3/28/2005 6:41:04 AM
Yes, oddly enough, I may execute other requests. I've just now noticed that
the process kicks out really close to 60 seconds, but it doesn't make since
that it stalls in the beginning. I'm able to move very large (respectively)
files with no consequence.

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