Hello fellow coders!
I am getting a very basic error trying to read a text file from a FTP server. The error says that "The connection has timed out..", which I believe basically means it is not connecting at all. Below is the code I am using to login (with fake login credentials). The connection works fine using any number of FTP clients. I have tried it in EG and BASE... same error in both. Any suggestions?
filename myfile ftp 'TEST.txt' cd='/Incoming folder/'
user='me1234 pass='passpass' host='sftp.randomcomp.com';
I assume I am missing something simple... but I have tried various things.
Your remote host is called sftp. Is it by any chance requiring a sftp connection? Perhaps try the sftp access method instead?
Well, I feel dumb. Thanks for pointing that out, Linus!
It seems like the SFTP process doesn't have a password option. Are you familiar with the SFTP process? I think I am missing a step.
Get it to work from command line on your SAS host system first. What I have found is that if I save the key into a file then I use the IdentityFile option.
filename myfile ftp 'TEST.txt' cd='/Incoming folder/'
user='me1234 pass='passpass' host='sftp.randomcomp.com'
options='-o IdentityFile=~/.ssh/me1234.txt'
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