Cannot list files on Windows CE FTP Server

[coder_infidel]

Hi,

I tried to use AndFTP to connect to an Windows CE 4.2-based embedded device running the FTP server that Microsoft provides but I get an empty directory listing. Other FTP clients work fine, including ftp.exe, Windows Explorer and FileZilla.

Luke

[support]

Is there a way for us to access your FTP server on WindowsCE from here?
So we can reproduce the problem and see how to fix it.

[coder_infidel]

No, but I can show you a directory listing. On a Windows Server FTP server the directory listing looks like:

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150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls.
10-13-08  12:00PM                96705 file1.dat
08-31-09  04:41PM               261120 file2.dat
04-30-09  03:29AM              4702208 file3_with_quite_a_long_filename.dat
10-05-09  10:12AM       <DIR>          subdirectory

The Windows CE listing is slightly different:

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150 File status okay; about to open data connection.
10-05-09  02:13       <DIR>          subdirectory
10-05-09  02:06               261120 file2.dat
10-05-09  02:06                96705 file1.dat
10-05-09  02:06              4702208 file3_with_quite_a_long_filename.dat

Does that help at all?

(edit: show how a subdirectory is listed too)

[coder_infidel]

Also, the output of the SYST command on Windows Server is:

215 Windows_NT

Compared to Windows CE:

215 Windows_CE version 4.20.

I think it would be better if you could parse the listing in a way that just works for both, but if you do need to decode the listing differently based on the output of SYST then I suggest that you just check for the substring "Windows_CE" and ignore the version part.