Hi, i am facing a problem in FTP task on win 2000.I am trying to create a folderon a remote machine(windows 2000) by <ftp action="mkdir" server="10.203.137.52" userid="suksingh" password="abc" remotedir="D:\abc\xyz" > </ftp>
parent folder D:\abc does not exist.it gives an error "access denied".when D:\abc exist on the remote machine it creates folder xyz in D:\abc. But if i replaced "\" with "/" say D:/abc/xyz it works perfactly. if remote machine is UNIX it works perfactly weather parent folder exist or not. <ftp action="mkdir" server="10.203.137.24" userid="suksingh" password="abc" remotedir="/abc/xyz" > </ftp> second problem is,when i tried to delete the a directory(D:\abc\xyz) by <ftp action="delete" server="10.203.137.128" userid="suksingh" password="abc" remotedir="D:\abc" > <fileset> <include name="**"/> </fileset> </ftp> <ftp action="rmdir" server="10.203.137.128" userid="suksingh" password="abc" remotedir="D:\abc" > <fileset> <include name="**"/> </fileset> </ftp> it gives the exception- BUILD FAILED D:\Programs\Ant\bin\build.xml:14: org.apache.commons.net.ftp.parser.ParserInitia lizationException: Error initializing parser at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:373) at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:341) at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.performTasks(Target.java:369) at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTarget(Project.java:1214) at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTargets(Project.java:1062) at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.runBuild(Main.java:673) at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.startAnt(Main.java:188) at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.run(Launcher.java:196) at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:55) Caused by: org.apache.commons.net.ftp.parser.ParserInitializationException: Erro r initializing parser at org.apache.commons.net.ftp.parser.DefaultFTPFileEntryParserFactory.cr eateFileEntryParser(DefaultFTPFileEntryParserFactory.java:115) at org.apache.commons.net.ftp.FTPClient.initiateListParsing(FTPClient.ja va:2306) at org.apache.commons.net.ftp.FTPClient.listFiles(FTPClient.java:2055) at org.apache.commons.net.ftp.FTPClient.listFiles(FTPClient.java:2106) at org.apache.commons.net.ftp.FTPClient.listFiles(FTPClient.java:2146) at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.net.FTP$FTPDirectoryScanner.li stFiles(FTP.java:501) at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.net.FTP$FTPDirectoryScanner.sc andir(FTP.java:329) at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.net.FTP$FTPDirectoryScanner.ch eckIncludePatterns(FTP.java:233) at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.net.FTP$FTPDirectoryScanner.sc an(FTP.java:197) at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.net.FTP.transferFiles(FTP.java :1287) at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.net.FTP.transferFiles(FTP.java :1382) at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.net.FTP.execute(FTP.java:2010) at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:275) at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:364) ... 8 more --- Nested Exception --- org.apache.commons.net.ftp.parser.ParserInitializationException: Error initializ ing parser at org.apache.commons.net.ftp.parser.DefaultFTPFileEntryParserFactory.cr eateFileEntryParser(DefaultFTPFileEntryParserFactory.java:115) at org.apache.commons.net.ftp.FTPClient.initiateListParsing(FTPClient.ja va:2306) at org.apache.commons.net.ftp.FTPClient.listFiles(FTPClient.java:2055) at org.apache.commons.net.ftp.FTPClient.listFiles(FTPClient.java:2106) at org.apache.commons.net.ftp.FTPClient.listFiles(FTPClient.java:2146) at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.net.FTP$FTPDirectoryScanner.li stFiles(FTP.java:501) at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.net.FTP$FTPDirectoryScanner.sc andir(FTP.java:329) at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.net.FTP$FTPDirectoryScanner.ch eckIncludePatterns(FTP.java:233) at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.net.FTP$FTPDirectoryScanner.sc an(FTP.java:197) at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.net.FTP.transferFiles(FTP.java :1287) at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.net.FTP.transferFiles(FTP.java :1382) at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.net.FTP.execute(FTP.java:2010) at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:275) at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:364) at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:341) at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.performTasks(Target.java:369) at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTarget(Project.java:1214) at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTargets(Project.java:1062) at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.runBuild(Main.java:673) at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.startAnt(Main.java:188) at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.run(Launcher.java:196) at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:55) please resolve the problem.Thanx in advance. 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