using WinSCP for anonymous ftp

How can I use WinSCP3 to get files from an anonymous ftp server? It works fine connecting to the server if I use the userid/password I have on that machine, but when I try to use "anonymous" in the userid field, it rejects the password (of my email address).

Chris Banres
chris-barnes@tamu.edu

Keep in mind that WinSCP is not FTP client! It is SCP and SFTP client. In my opinion, anonymous SCP/SFTP is nonsense.

martin wrote:

Keep in mind that WinSCP is not FTP client! It is SCP and SFTP client. In my opinion, anonymous SCP/SFTP is nonsense.

I can't say I disagree with your opinion, but as a developer on a government project only requirements matter. I have a requirement to access data from the anonymous FTP site of another government agency. I don't have the luxury of telling them how to do business. I don't have the option of ignoring a requirement. The product either supports anonymous FTP or it doesn't and we will have to use another method of meeting the requirement. Could you please answer the questions:

Does Winscp support anonymous FTP? (Yes or no)
If Winscp does support anonymous FTP, how does one script it?

Sorry if this is terse, but you have to understand that when you are looking for answers and all you get are opinions it is extremely frustrating.

There's nothing special about anonymous FTP.
Just specify the credentials as documented here:
https://winscp.net/eng/docs/ui_login

To answer your question:
WinSCP does not support anonymous FTP. Althought some WinSCP works for some anonymous FTP sites, it doesn't work for many.

Anonymous wrote:

To answer your question:
WinSCP does not support anonymous FTP. Althought some WinSCP works for some anonymous FTP sites, it doesn't work for many.

That's not true. See my previous post.

I can't connect to anymous ftp.
I try to connect to ftp://ftp1.mplayerhq.hu/ but i still prompted for password and then "Żądana nazwa jest prawidłowa i została znaleziona w bazie danych, ale dane, z kt�rymi jest skojarzona, są niepoprawne.
Connection failed."
But other ftp clients are connecting to it.
I'm using WinSCP 5.0. (build 1456).

You can get it to work in a script by using "anonymous" as both the username and password.


Haven't tested it against an SFTP site, but it worked fine against FTP.
Tested using WinSCP version 5.5.1.3970 on Windows Server 2008r2