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FTP into SharePoint Library of Sub Site
Hi there,
We are having trouble trying to FTP into a SharePoint library. We can get it to work if we are trying to FTP into the main site collection librarieis, but we can't get it to work when we want to FTP into a library of one of the subsites.
The way it works for the main site, is that we set the FTP destination on Windows Server to the network path of the main site labrary. The problem is that the network path does not give us access to the sub-sites.
We have tried to create a mapped drive to the sub-site library, but then when setting up the FTP, we cannot select a mapped drive as an FTP physical location - mapped drives do now show ont he list of drives in that view.
Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks
SharePoint 2013, Windows Server 2012
Thanks, we managed to get it working. It is certainly possible. It turned out that we were having permission problems, and after recreating the library, then we got it working.
We set up an FTP server on the app server of SharePoint. When you set the physical path of the FTP folder, you need to specify the UNC path of the library. Permissions are really important at every level - from library access to DB access. It's working now and no need to have some sort of intermediary transfer tool or scheduled job.
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- You might try SPFileZilla that is very similar to FileZilla, but ready for SharePoint: https://spfilezilla.codeplex.com/
- Thanks - I did look into SPZilla but it's not really an FTP client, only a look-alike client. We are also using FTP from another system into SharePoint, so it is prgrammatic, and not using an FTP client.
Thanks though :)
Thanks, we managed to get it working. It is certainly possible. It turned out that we were having permission problems, and after recreating the library, then we got it working.
We set up an FTP server on the app server of SharePoint. When you set the physical path of the FTP folder, you need to specify the UNC path of the library. Permissions are really important at every level - from library access to DB access. It's working now and no need to have some sort of intermediary transfer tool or scheduled job.
