MIke thanks good to know that it only works with file:///  which kinda defeats 
the point with what we are trying to do.

Thanks.

Brock Palen
www.umich.edu/~brockp
CAEN Advanced Computing
[email protected]
(734)936-1985



On Jun 7, 2013, at 2:17 AM, Michael Link <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Brock,
> 
> It is likely that those servers don't support third party transfers, or fxp 
> as it is commonly called with standard ftp servers.  While some standard ftp 
> server software supports this, it is often not enabled on public servers.
> 
> With the second server, it recognizes that the port you're telling it to 
> connect to isn't the same one that the client is connecting from, and fails.
> 
> With the first I suspect it is simply ignoring the address portion of the 
> PORT argument and attempting to connect to the client address.
> 
> Either should work if you're able to run globus-url-copy on the same host as 
> the gridftp server, though that may of defeat the purpose.
> 
> Mike
> 
> On 6/4/2013 4:36 PM, Brock Palen wrote:
>> I need to have a user push a lot of data though a host from an FTP only site 
>> to our gridftp server.  The user has to do it this way because we don't 
>> allow user login on this host  (sftp, and globusonline only)
>> 
>> Because we setup this host with GCMU we have self signed certs etc. but I 
>> was able to manualy set subjects.  Problem is I can't get the transfer to 
>> work:
>> 
>> globus-url-copy -dbg -v -ds '<subject>' 
>> ftp://public-ftp.hmpdacc.org/Illumina/stool/SRS045004.tar.bz2 
>> gsiftp://gridftp-flux.engin.umich.edu/scratch/support_flux/brockp/tmp/
>> 
>> Just hangs, and the file says size zero.
>> 
>> Last line of debug information is:
>> debug: sending command to 
>> ftp://public-ftp.hmpdacc.org/Illumina/stool/SRS045004.tar.bz2:
>> PORT 141,212,30,14,196,207
>> 
>> I tried using another ftp server and I get a different error:
>> 
>> globus-url-copy  -dbg -v -ds '<subject>' 
>> ftp://mirror.optus.net/fedora/linux/extras/README 
>> gsiftp://gridftp-flux.engin.umich.edu/scratch/support_flux/brockp/tmp/
>> 
>> error: globus_ftp_client: the server responded with an error
>> 500 Illegal PORT command
>> 
>> Any thoughts on why I can't do this?
>> 
>> Brock Palen
>> www.umich.edu/~brockp
>> CAEN Advanced Computing
>> [email protected]
>> (734)936-1985
>> 
>> 

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