Hey thanks, 

But what I would like to do is prevent clients from sending MDTM commands so
that the server time is always preserved no matter what.  And I cannot find
any place where you can allow/ disallow certain commands in the server
console.

David Knapp

Dealerskins Systems, Support & Integration


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Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 4:44 PM
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david,
this questions comes up from time to time. you can find answers in the
list-archive, when searching for "preserve time" or "preserve file time"
there.

in short:  you must enable it (MDTM) on your clientside and  your serverside
must support it too.

 one good answer is for example
(http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg00664.html):

===snip===
The feature that allows the client to set the date/time for a file uploaded
to an FTP
server is support for the MDTM command on the FTP server side.  This is an
internal
command for the protocol (like STOR, RETR, etc.) that is a proposed, but as
yet
unaccepted standard.  Without the MDTM command, the server sets the
date/time for an
uploaded file to the time on the server.  By running a trace, you should see
that the
WS_FTP client sends the MDTM command to the server.  I think you will see
that IIS
returns an error for the MDTM command (which is not considered a serious
problem by
WS_FTP client).

I **believe** IIS includes an MDTM command but it does not adhere to the
proposed
standard.  I may have stated this point incorrectly, so please check
further.

The WS_FTP server supports MDTM, and will set the date/time correctly (down
to the
seconds).  However, the ftpsync program only compares date/times down to the
minute,
and this can lead to errors in file synchronization.
===snip===


and this one
(http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg00664.html):

===snip===
question:
When I FTP into my server and first upload a file to my server, I get
the message:

"550 20010610222910 edit.htm: no such file or directory"

answer:
The client is issuing the MDTM command to try and set the date on the file
because the
"Preserve File Times" option is checked in WS_FTP. This use of the command
is
obviously not supported by your server. No harm done and the file should be
there. If
you look in the log right before the error, you should see something like:
MDTM
20010610222910 /edit.htm
This is where the client is attempting to set the file time to it's original
time.
===snip===

pitter


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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Auftrag von David Knapp
Gesendet: Dienstag, 31. August 2004 22:08
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Betreff: [WS_FTP Forum] Forcing Server time for uploads


Does anyone know how to restrict users from changing timestamp on upload for
files uploaded so that the server time is always used?

i.e.  I upload a file dated 5/9/2002 and instead of preserving this
timestamp the server forces the create date to be the current server time.

David Knapp
Dealerskins Systems, Support & Integration


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