Vista - Scripting Explorer FTP

Hi,

I was wondering if there was an easy way to script the FTP functionality of
the Windows Explorer shell.

Why might I want to do this? Well, as you probably know, although FTP can
handle multiple file transfers using 'MPUT', it cannot handle transferring a
folder with all content and all recursive subfolders, unless you write some
recursive scripts to do this.

However, the Windows Explorer GUI FTP client does allow you to select an
entire folder on a local drive and dump it into an FTP folder of your choice,
all in one go. It strikes me that this should be something that is possible
to script.

I can start Explorer easily enough at the right location, e.g.:
explorer.exe ftp://ftp.microsoft.com

But I am not too sure where to go from there.


My need is to upload the contents of a folder, including all recursive
subfolders and their contents, to a remote FTP site.
Ideally I would zip my stuff at the local end, transfer a single file and
then unzip at the remote end. But I do not have sufficient permissions to
ubzip on the remote server. FTP access is all I have.

Any thoughts much appreciated, including any alternative ways of doing this
if scripting the Explorer FTP GUI is not possible.

Thanks...

http://blog.sapien.com/current/free-...transfers.html

"holf" <holf@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks Brandon, that looks very promising and I will probably end up using it.

I guess I will have to write some recursive routines to parse my directory
tree and copy everything across folder by folder. I have no problem doing
that in C# or VB.net, but I am pretty new to Powershell so it's going to be
an interesting learning experience.

Thanks for the link.



"Brandon Shell" wrote:

I have never used Don's (sapien) cmdlets... but I will help any way I can.
Let me download it and see what I can do quickly

"holf" <holf@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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nm... Shay has done it already
http://scriptolog.blogspot.com/2007/...utomation.html

"Brandon Shell" <tshell.mask@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks... that's very helpful.

"Brandon Shell" wrote:

I've had a look into this. Unfortunately the COM dll mentioned only has
methods for 'get' and 'put'. I'll need to be creating folders, traversing
folder trees etc. So either I need something more fully featured that I can
access from Powershell, or I'll have to call something else which will do the
job (such as the Explorer Shell).


Alternatively, I've thought of another approach. I can run ASP.net on my
host, so I could just upload a single ZIP file and then run an ASP.net page
on the server which will decompress everything into the right place.

Seems like the best solution as it minimises transfer bandwidth.


Thanks again for you thoughts on all this.



"holf" wrote:

Hmmm... Don is on here occasionally, maybe he can comment.

I will also see what I can find... I thought there was a FTPClient in the
Framework.

"holf" <holf@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Sep 22, 4:12 am, holf <h...@xxxxxx> wrote:The NetCmdlets get-ftp and send-ftp cmdlets can handle this:
www.nsoftware.com/powershell/.

Lance
http://geekswithblogs.net/Lance

Thanks, Lance.

I've ended up uploading a Zip file and then using ASP.net to do the
unpacking at the other end. It is working well so I'll probably stick with
that.

Thanks very much to Brandon and Lance for their replies.



"Lance" wrote: