<html> <head> <style> P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body { FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma } </style> </head> <body>I don't really know what you are trying to do but if it is a win machine, Filezilla is an exellent ftp gui that allows you to do everything your trying to with linux filesystems, from creating  dir's to setting 3 digit file/dir  permissions (ie 777, 755, 644) by simply right clicking on the file or directory selecting attribs and typing the 3 digits or even select them with tick boxes if needed...   Hope this is of some help...   James D Sorry for Top posting... <HR id=stopSpelling> > From: c.humphrey_00@hotmail.co.uk > To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2007 19:16:46 +0000 > Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] uploading files ftp > > Regards your suggestions I have made a directory with a chmod permission of > 777. Though I cannot upload to this directory from the winxp machine. > > when I use the following: > > "put upload" > > this is what I get: > > "200: Port request successful. Consider using PASV. > 553: Could not create file." > > [What does this mean?] > > -- > > I wonder if the command I'm using from c: prompt in winxp is incorrect. > > When I connect to the ftp server from the winxp machine, I connect using > generic user account of "ftp" with a random e-mail address for a password: > > after this I use "ls -l" to see what's there which shows [porc] the > directory which I created and the one text document I created. > > After this I use "ls -l [porc]" to list the contents of porc. > > Then after verifying porc is empty I try to upload the file named, "upload" > [which is sitting on the winxp machine in <windir>/documents and > settings/colin] with the following command, "put upload". > > Is this the correct command? Has it got anything to do with the fact that > /var/ftp/porc and /home/ftp/porc are at different locations? > > The permissions shown in the contents of /home/ftp are: > > total 8 > drwxr-xr-x- 2 root root 4096 2007-01-01 18:26 [porc] > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7 2007-01-01 16:31 send to > > _________________________________________________________________ > Windows Live™ Messenger has arrived. Click here to download it for free! > http://imagine-msn.com/messenger/launch80/?locale=en-gb > > <hr />Be one of the first to try <a href='http://ideas.live.com/programpage.aspx?versionId=5d21c51a-b161-4314-9b0e-4911fb2b2e6d' target='_new'>Windows Live Mail.</a></body> </html>