How to invoke active mode after version 4.3

hi,

now that ftp defaults to passive mode in 4.3
how do i invoke active mode on command line or scripting ?
i tried -active but had no success.

Thx

There's no direct way yet. But read
https://winscp.net/eng/docs/faq_script_ini

Anyway, why do you prefer an active mode?

Last edited by martin on 2011-03-25; edited 1 time in total

martin wrote:

There's no direct way yet. But read
url=https://winscp.net/eng/docs/faq_script_ini

Anyway, why to you prefer an active mode?

Hello Martin,
thx for the link.
I am connecting a farm of 10+ Servers round robin to a 1000+ wending machines from different companies, sitting behind different firewalls and all using the same public ip ranges - of course ...
NATing that is already a BIG pain and PASV would add a lot of configuration on systems out of my control.
So setting up sessions for all these machines, on all the servers on the Farm would not be very efficient, because there are always some of the wending machines in repair, or getting a new module resulting in a new fingerprint.
Not to mention adding new machines ...
I would be updating those sessions all day long ...
Now I am using a central database with all needed information - easily updated ;) but that requires scripting (vb.net) to connect.
I tryed setting up sessions on the fly, but that did not work, because having multiple instances of WinSCP running on each Server, everyone overwriting the changes I made while they where active, on exit.
Well I guess I stick to 4.2.9 for the time beeing ;)

Regards

clearsol wrote:

I tryed setting up sessions on the fly, but that did not work, because having multiple instances of WinSCP running on each Server, everyone overwriting the changes I made while they where active, on exit.

'The ideas one gets AFTER pressing submit ...' :mrgreen:
Well I guess I could use a custom .ini/session for each instance ...
and not the WinSCP.ini ... :oops:

let me think about that ...
so - thx again for the faq_script_ini !!!

Huge Programm (and a great one !) - lots of Documentation ...
and well - who RTFM ? right :roll:

could you please tell me how can I enable active mode for one session with the ini files? I am noob, please be gentle.

I love winscp text editor and on the fly uploader
Thank you very much

Anonymous wrote:

could you please tell me how can I enable active mode for one session with the ini files? I am noob, please be gentle.

I love winscp text editor and on the fly uploader
Thank you very much

You you are using GUI, just enable it in the GUI directly:
https://winscp.net/eng/docs/ui_login_connection
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