From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

"Mike N."  wrote in message
news:hqbq631f8njcr2mtpfi6cbdfp941nm0bls{at}4ax.com...
>>a service application (custom app, assume that the app itself
>>works for now (it does, I've tested it in another computer))
>>that forms an FTP connection
>
>  Definitely a programmer ... nested parenthesis, and both are closed

Definately another one to notice something like that  ;-)


>>The problem is, that the service cannot connect to the other server.
>>I can connect from the very same server using the same username
>>and password, with the command-line FTP client just fine. The
>>Windows Firewall is off. These computers are in the same network,
>>and the FTP server is actually just an XP Pro machine running under my
>>desk.
>
>    What account is the service running under?   Accounts running as
> "SYSTEM" have restricted network access for security reasons.
>
>   Do you actually get an error reported as "Unable to connect"?   Also
> confirm that the account it's running under has access to the folder where
> it tries to save the results.

Ha, that's a good one (the account), I'll check that - no, the error is a
.NET exception with about 30 lines of propagated exception classes which
surface to the one that the programmer raises: "ftp error".
 I'd slap him, but he's abroad at the moment so I'll just have
to email him to make the error actually describe *what* is wrong.

I can see from the FTP server side, though, that there is no connection
attempt there, so it is failing to go out from the w2k3 server box. But,
I'll check the accounts first thing tomorrow.

Thanks-o,
Antti Kurenniemi

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