Thanks, Galt. We switched to the http protocol since the ftp server, as you say, wasn't configured to allow this.
Shankar On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 7:35 PM, Galt Barber <[email protected]> wrote: > If you do not supply a user:password@ in the bigDataUrl, > then FTP will use anonymous login. > > PASS is the "password" command. > PASV is the "passive" command. > > Most FTP servers work this way. > > Perhaps you can find another server that allows anonymous login, > or have your server reconfigured to support it. > > -Galt > > > On 05/04/11 14:54, Shankar Ajay Subramanian wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I've been trying to load a bigWig custom track that has been hosted on a >> remote FTP site. I confirmed that the file is present but I end up with >> the >> following error when I add a track >> >> track type=bigWig name="test" description="testing" bigDataUrl= >> ftp://ftp.somesite.com >> >> "ftp server error on cmd=[PASS [email protected] ] response=[500 Unknown >> command. ]" >> >> Does this mean that the FTP server has not been set up in "Passive mode". >> Is >> there a way around this? >> >> Thanks, >> Shankar >> _______________________________________________ >> Genome maillist - [email protected] >> https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome >> > _______________________________________________ Genome maillist - [email protected] https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome
