chmod (Setting File Permissions)

This example assumes your FTP server supports the "chmod" command, which typically means it must be a server running on a Linux or Unix system. The SendCommand method may be called to send arbitrary commands to the FTP server. This example sends a "chmod" command to set the file permissions.

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Dim fso, outFile
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set outFile = fso.CreateTextFile("output.txt", True)

set ftp = CreateObject("Chilkat.Ftp2")

'  Any string unlocks the component for the 1st 30-days.
success = ftp.UnlockComponent("Anything for 30-day trial")
If (success <> 1) Then
    MsgBox ftp.LastErrorText
    WScript.Quit
End If

ftp.Hostname = "ftp.cknotes.com"
ftp.Username = "myLogin"
ftp.Password = "myPassword"

'  Connect and login to the FTP server.
success = ftp.Connect()
If (success <> 1) Then
    MsgBox ftp.LastErrorText
    WScript.Quit
End If

'  Send a chmod command to the FTP server to set
'  the permissions of a file to 0644:

response = ftp.SendCommand("chmod 0644 hamlet.xml")

If (response = vbNullString ) Then
    '  Failed.
    outFile.WriteLine(ftp.LastErrorText)
Else
    '  You should write code to examine the response to
    '  the SendCommand.  As an example, the FTP server
    '  used for testing responds with this for success:
    '  200 Permissions changed on hamlet.xml
    MsgBox response
End If

ftp.Disconnect 
outFile.Close