Did you load the ftp's ant task?  if you dont, it will not work inside maven.
Check out the archive for instructions on how to load it

-D

On Mar 31, 2005 5:41 AM, GOKULAM Jayaram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Kenney,
> 
> I tried the whole day, in repeating the same from my windows machine
> using, an absolute path and to create a directory in the linux machine.
> I was unsuccessful.
> 
> I tried with in stalling FTP clients on my windows machine,
> 
> Then adding the following jars in the Project.xml dependencies after
> having placed them in my local repository
> NetComponents.jar
> commons-net-1.3.0.jar
> jakarta-oro-2.0.8.jar
> 
> Still I don't seem to get the FTP mkdir working.
> 
> Please guide me to make this work.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Jayaram
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kenney Westerhof [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 8:40 PM
> To: Maven Users List
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: ANT FTP with Maven
> 
> On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, GOKULAM Jayaram wrote:
> 
> > Hi kenney,
> >
> > I referred the manual of ANT
> >
> > http://ant.apache.org/manual/OptionalTasks/ftp.html
> >
> > Which says that create directory will create a remote directory
> beneath
> > the default root directory.
> >
> > Can you please let me know, which is the default root directory in
> > linux?
> > I believe it is /root, if that's the case, my FTP mkdir still does not
> > work.
> 
> The ant manual is wrong - the name should be 'default home directory'.
> At least, if you log in as a normal user. Then you can wander all over
> the entire filesystem. If you use an anonymous account, you can only
> see a part of the filesystem.
> 
> If you'd try this:
> 
>   <ant:ftp action="mkdir" server="${maven.remote.machine}"
>       userid="${maven.remote.user}" password="${maven.remote.password}"
>       remotedir="/tmp/TEST"
>    />
> 
> then the directory /tmp/TEST should be created.
> 
> > What should be the problem?
> 
> My guess is that you work on a windows machine, and ${maven.build.dir}
> is something like
> 
> C:\Documents\ And\ Settings\YourUserName\Desktop\Work\YourProject
> 
> which is not a valid unix path.
> 
> You should have a path like
> 
>        /path/to/directory/you/want/to/create
> 
> for an absolute path, or
> 
>        directory/in/your/home/directory
> .
> 
> Usually the ftp task is used for publishing websites and artifacts.
> (see maven-jar-plugin et.al.)
> You can test this all out using <echo>${maven.build.dir}</echo>
> and trying to create that directory by hand using the windows ftp
> client.
> But that's probably not the directory you want to create.
> 
> O, and about your signature: ofcourse, I understand it's something you
> cannot change - just wanted to point out that that policy makes no sense
> when you send mail to an archived list ;)
> 
> Greetings,
> 
>        Kenney Westerhof
> 
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Jayaram
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Kenney Westerhof [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 6:15 PM
> > To: Maven Users List
> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: ANT FTP with Maven
> >
> > On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, GOKULAM Jayaram wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > first of all: you might consider leaving the confidentiality footer
> out,
> > since this email is addressed to a list, not a person, and is readable
> > by the whole world :)
> >
> > As you can read in http://ant.apache.org/manual/OptionalTasks/ftp.html
> > nested fileset attributes are ignored in the ftp task. Instead
> > it wil mkdir the ${maven.remote.dir}, but that probably already
> exists,
> > so nothing is printed/done.
> >
> > - Kenney
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > Am trying to connect to FTP server of windows to linux, using a
> > ant:ftp
> > > from Maven.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > When I run the above goal, it just displays the task on the console,
> > and
> > > it is not creating a directory as I wanted to.
> > >
> > > <goal name="remote:ftp" description="Copy the artifacts">
> > >
> > >
> > >                   <ant:fileset dir="${maven.build.dir}" />
> > >
> > >               </ant:ftp>
> > >
> > >     </goal>
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Any help on the above issue would be great.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Jayaram
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