ftp

[Richard Harris]

Hello,

Does anyone have any ideas on the best method for using labviews
TCP/IP functions to send a file to a remote system. The VI needs to be
platform independent, so I can't use a system call to a local ftp
utility.

Thanks

[altenbach]

What kind of open services are running on the target system?

If this is on a local windows network, you migh be better off just writing to a local share of the remote system.

In general, public computers should not have any services open to receive random files. It would be much better if you could arrange it that LabVIEW serves the file while the remote system initiates the connection.

[Kevin Valentine]

Hi Richard,

You could try the FTP library from the Internet Connectivity Toolkit on
OpenG:
http://openg.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=OpenG%20Internet%20Connectivity%20Tools

It only uses LV's TCP functions so consider it platform independent. Just
keep in mind that the login is plain text (not very secure).

If you're transferring very large files, Altenbach's suggestion would
certainly be much faster.

-kevin