Ftp in microsoft access

If your Web browser starts and you can see the contents of the FTP site, you have the correct access to the site. This feature requires that you have open and save permissions on the FTP site. For additional information, click the following article numbers to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:. Click Add. Click OK.

For Office programs: In the upper-right corner of the Office program window, click the Microsoft Office Button , and then click Open. Type the name of the FTP site. Need more help? Expand your skills. Get new features first. Was this information helpful? Yes No. Thank you! The image below should give you an idea of how this tool works. You must first, of course, supply the address of an FTP server, along with login credentials and a start location, a target folder on the FTP server, which contains the files you seek.

For the sake of users who wish to test my code, I have created a login to an FTP server and the demo tool will default to these parameters. You can play with the app, test the functions and step through the code using my server, or point the tool to one of your own.

I have not, however, made provision for anonymous login sites. After considering the code behind this demo, you will no doubt understand how you might implement such a login yourself, but since my clients have always required secure FTP access, it is not something that ever made it into my code.

Extending Dev Ahsish's code, I added the ability to read an FTP folder, grab the list of files with their size and create date, and load it into an Access table for consideration. Clicking the Read Folder Files button refreshes the sub datasheet with the current file list. As more readers log on and upload files, the list of downloadable files will grow.

Once the list of files has been loaded, you may select a file from the Download File combo box and click the Download button to initiate the code.

Same for the Upload button, which allows you to upload any of the files exposed in the drop down list. The combo box is populated with whatever files are found in the local folder. Startup code behind the form creates three files automatically upon opening the application. The bottom text area displays the simple FTP commands that carry out the request.

It should be noted that typing the commands at a DOS prompt would accomplish the same result. The VBA code simply saves the required commands to a text file and pipes it to the ftp. I have simplified the following code somewhat from what you will see in the demo app. What you see below is the part that does the FTP work and is not concerned with minutia like testing to see if a file or folder exists and reporting success or failure to the user.

The above UI handles those issues, but for the sake of this article, we want to focus on the code that executes the actual FTP commands. The only difference for any of these functions is the actual FTP commands used. To illustrate the process, we will focus on the download function.

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