Can't connect to FTP: (553) File name not allowed

Question

I need to FTP a file to a directory. In .Net I have to use a file on the destination folder to create a connection so I manually put Blank.dat on the server using FTP. I che

Answer 1

I had this problem when I tried to write to the FTP site's root directory pro grammatically. When I repeated the operation manually, the FTP automatically rerouted me to a sub-directory and completed the write operation. I then changed my code to prefix the target filename with the sub-directory and the operation was successful.