Problem using cmd.exe from asp

[Derek Timothy]

Hi folks I have strange problem using cmd.exe from asp code

I am trying to save the results of an FTP command into a text file. When I
run this command from the command line of the web server it creates the text
file OK and it contains the results of the FTP commands.

ftp.exe -s:test.ftp > c:\tempfile.txt

However when I run it from asp using cmd.exe, it creates the file
c:\tempfile.txt but there is nothing in it.

set oScript=Server.CreateObject("WSCRIPT.SHELL")
oScript.run("cmd.exe /c ftp.exe -s:test.ftp > c:\tempfile.txt")

Any ideas why?

Thanks a lot,

Derek

 

[Curt_C [MVP]]

Hi folks I have strange problem using cmd.exe from asp code

I am trying to save the results of an FTP command into a text file. When I
run this command from the command line of the web server it creates the text
file OK and it contains the results of the FTP commands.

ftp.exe -s:test.ftp > c:\tempfile.txt

However when I run it from asp using cmd.exe, it creates the file
c:\tempfile.txt but there is nothing in it.

set oScript=Server.CreateObject("WSCRIPT.SHELL")
oScript.run("cmd.exe /c ftp.exe -s:test.ftp > c:\tempfile.txt")

Any ideas why?

Thanks a lot,

Derek

just a guess but permission to FTP.EXE?

 

[Derek Timothy]

Curt,

It was worth a try, but sadly I get the same problem

Am I adding permission to the correct account IUSR_ANON?

Best Regards,
Derek

 

[Curt_C [MVP]]

Curt,

It was worth a try, but sadly I get the same problem

Am I adding permission to the correct account IUSR_ANON?

Best Regards,
Derek

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just a guess but permission to FTP.EXE?

as a test, try using an admin account as your IIS user...

 

[Derek Timothy]

Curt,

I don't have the authority to change the admin account, but I think this
problem may because the script file and the file I want to ftp are not on
the web server itself but on a network share. I am pretty sure that the
ISR_ANON has the access rights to the network share but something about
permissions must be wrong.

If I copy the ftp script to the local server then the result file is now
created but it fails to change folder to \\server\share\folder

Once again it runs OK from a command line prompt.

It must be something related to permissions but which ones?

Thanks again.

Best Regards,
Derek