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Could not determine cwdir: Permission denied. (log included) (3 posts)
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- Started 21 years ago by gsprague
- Latest reply 21 years ago from Jim Matthews
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gsprague Member
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Jim Matthews Administrator
I would suggest showing them the transcript. The answer to the PWD (print working directory" command shows that the server is messed up -- it should be the path to your home directory, not ".". This has nothing to do with whether you are using a Mac -- you would see the same thing connecting to your account from a Windows FTP client.
My best guess is that the file that specifies the home directory for your account has been corrupted, but that's just a guess.
Jim Matthews
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OK, I am not a Fetch newbie, I've been using it sucessfully and have been quite happy. However 3 weeks ago my ISP was crashed by an electrical storm and since it came back up I get the following error when I try to upload.
"Server response: Could not determine cwdir: Permission denied."
Now the people at my ISP support center are generally total idiots and when it comes to anything Mac related they are World Class Total Idiots. I've reported the problem and get the "things are fine at our end response" which is no help at all. When I try to explain that nothing has changed on my end they suggest that I try an other FTP client. (Now why would Fetch work fine before the crash and not now?????) So I download the latest version of Fetch and get the same error and download Anarchie (ick) and still get the same error.
Does anybody have anything I can tell these pseudo-support people to enlighten them (though I'm not sure they are open to enlightment). Or if it is on my end, what do I to fix it. Below is the log for a failed PUT attempt.
Gwen
Connecting to ftp.sky.net port 21 (5/26/02 9:29:00 PM)
220 apollo.sky.net FTP server (Version wu-2.4.2-academ[BETA-13](3) Fri Jan 22 23:47:54 CST 1999) ready.
USER gsprague
331 Password required for gsprague.
PASS
230 User gsprague logged in.
SYST
215 UNIX Type: L8
PWD
257 "." is current directory.
CWD /home/g/gsprague/.html
250 CWD command successful.
PWD
257 "." is current directory.
PORT 209,90,4,68,53,184
200 PORT command successful.
STOR answers.html
553 Could not determine cwdir: Permission denied.
ftp_store_setup: -30000
ABOR
221 You could at least say goodbye.
QUIT
Posted 21 years ago #