Transfer files from windows machine to remote solaris machine using python script.

Question

hi, i used following code to establish connection between my local machine and the remote machine :

import os, sys, ftplib

nonpassive=False
remotesite= '10.88.203.21:22'
remoteuser='root'
remotepass='v-peg8!@#'
localdir= "c:\\.."
print "connecting"

connection=ftplib.FTP(remotesite)
print "successfully connected"

connection.login(remoteuser,remotepass)

if nonpassive:
    connection.set_pasv(False)

But its giving me following error: socket.gaierror: [Errno 11001] getaddrinfo failed.. can somebody plz help me out with this.

Answer 1

You need to specify the port as a separate argument, not in the way you have it in remotesite. Try:

remotesite = '10.88.203.21'
port = 22
connection = ftplib.FTP(remotesite, port)

See the FTP docs for more information.

Answer 2

If its port 22, then you are using wrong port, since most systems use 22 for SSH protocol. Assuming that 22 is normal SSH port, you should really use scp/sftp. (try paramiko for Python). If you are sure the remote server is running FTP, then use the default port 21.