As the instructions indicate, do not use your own user name, but rather the exact name called: "anonymous"
For the password, enter your email address. See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_FTP#Anonymous_FTP --Hiram Kishore Kamati wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to download hg18 annotation database and here is the > downloading instructions specified in the link > http://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg18/database/ > > > To download a large file or multiple files from this directory, we recommend > that you use ftp rather than downloading the files via our website. To do so: > ftp hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu > user name: anonymous > password: <your email address> > go to the directory goldenPath/hg18/database > > > I used my name as user_name and my gmail_id as password. And when I > give the following command it says error 530... > > ftp> cd goldenPath/hg18/database > 530 Please login with USER and PASS > > > Please let me know what username and password I should use? > > > Thanks, > Kishore > _______________________________________________ > Genome maillist - [email protected] > https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome > _______________________________________________ Genome maillist - [email protected] https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome
