Can't Delete a file because of version number

[JadeRobbins]

i'm trying to delete files with filezilla but our ftp server keeps giving me this error

Response: 550-Failed to delete file SYS$USER_J:[USERNAME.WWW]INDEX.HTML;
Response: 550 The file specification must contain a name, type and version number (even if wildcarded).

any clues as to if filezilla will have version deleting support or is this more of an ftp server issue?

[TheAngryPenguin]

i'm trying to delete files with filezilla but our ftp server keeps giving me this error

Response: 550-Failed to delete file SYS$USER_J:[USERNAME.WWW]INDEX.HTML;
Response: 550 The file specification must contain a name, type and version number (even if wildcarded).

any clues as to if filezilla will have version deleting support or is this more of an ftp server issue?

Are you connecting to an OpenVMS FTP Server?

[JadeRobbins]

yes, yes sir i am. What are your thoughts?

[TheAngryPenguin]

yes, yes sir i am. What are your thoughts?

Well, I don't want to state that FZ is incompatible with OpenVMS, but I've never been able to get the two of them to work properly. So, when I need to connect to an OpenVMS FTP server, I find that I need to revert to either the command line, or WS_FTP. This is unfortunate, because it is the only thing preventing me from rolling out FZ throughout my enterprise.

Maybe we can get Tim to revisit considering making FZ more compatible with OpenVMS. I'd defnitely be willing to do whatever it takes to help.

-TheAngryPenguin

[botg]

Which problems do you have Penguin?

[JadeRobbins]

well i know all i would need is some way to wildcard version numbers of files. We don't need multiple versions, but i can't delete anything because it requires a version number. Maybe an option so that you can add a wildcard version number in the settings.

[TheAngryPenguin]

Which problems do you have Penguin?

Basically, the main problem is that FZ will not display file iterations. For example:

On OpenVMS, from the DCL:

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$ dir/siz/dat

Directory *****:[USER.******.TEST]

TEST.TXT;3                 1   4-AUG-2004 15:23:33.98
TEST.TXT;2                 1   4-AUG-2004 15:23:25.68
TEST.TXT;1                 1   4-AUG-2004 15:23:17.51

Total of 3 files, 3 blocks.

FZ only displays one file, which seems to be the most current iteration:



However, when I do a dir from the command prompt [in FTP], all files are shown:

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ftp> dir
200 PORT command okay.
150 Opening data connection for directory.



Directory ******:[USER.******.TEST]

TEST.TXT;3                 1   4-AUG-2004 15:23:33.98
TEST.TXT;2                 1   4-AUG-2004 15:23:25.68
TEST.TXT;1                 1   4-AUG-2004 15:23:17.51

Total of 3 files, 3 blocks.
226 Closing data connection.
ftp: 240 bytes received in 0.03Seconds 8.00Kbytes/sec.

Normally, this wouldn't be that big of an issue, but my users need to have FTP access to older file versions.

Also, it's a little frustrating that you have to turn off 'Show hidden files' to even get a directory listing. It would be nice if we could configure the 'Show Hidden Files' attribute in the Site Manager's advanced settings.

Finally, it seems that Jade's issue with deleting files that have multiple iterations is stemmed from FZ's inability to display more than one version of the same file. I just gave it a try, and in the above examples, I had to delete TEST.TXT three times in FZ to actually get rid of it. Imagine how frustrating this would be for someone was trying to delete a file that had 100+ versions...

-TheAngryPenguin

[botg]

I'll add a switch in 2.2.8 which will allow you to see all revisions. FZ only displays the latest revision since that had been requested when VMS support had been implemented.

[TheAngryPenguin]

I'll add a switch in 2.2.8 which will allow you to see all revisions. FZ only displays the latest revision since that had been requested when VMS support had been implemented.

Awesome. Looking forward to it. Thanks!

[TheAngryPenguin]

Thanks for implementing this. So far, it is workable, but I have noticed the following bug:

The listed directories contain "%DIR_NAME%;1"

When changing directories, it seems that 1) the ;1 should not be included in the command, and 2) the full path must be used.

As an example, lets say thay my home directory is "DISK:[USER.TAP]" -- to successfully CD into the subdirectory "TEMP", simply doing a "CD TEMP" will fail -- it is required to do a "CD DISK:[USER.TAP.TEMP]"

Again, it looks like FZ is including the ;1 as part of the CD command, and this too will cause the command to fail.

-TheAngryPenguin

[botg]

Thanks for reporting that, looks like I'll have to make another release soon.

[TheAngryPenguin]

No hurries, no worries. Personally, I think implementing secure FTP into FZS should be of higer priority than this

[botg]

Implementing SFTP is rather difficult, since the most popular SFTP/SSH server (OpenSSH) does not run under Win. And porting such a huge project will be difficult...

And writing my own SSH server would be impossible

[TheAngryPenguin]

I'm not going to pretend that I know a whole lot about OpenSSH or secure FTP, but I do know this: OpenVPN uses OpenSSL to secure its tunnels, I am able to run it as a server in a Win32 environment, and it supports TLS, etc. Not sure if it's possible, but have you considered the possibility of using OpenSSL as the backend for secure FTP?

-TheAngryPenguin

[botg]

On my todo list.

So I never had the time time to implement it