Labs 3: FTP access not working

[toltech]

L.S.,
We installed a fresh alfresco labs 3. If we use any ftp client we can not access or view any directories below "/Alfresco". In "/Alfreso" we only see a couple of files, but not all files which are available. It looks like the ftp is not working correctly.

- We are not running any firewall, active /passive is not an issue
- In "/Alfresco" we can not create any subdirectories, nor upload or download files.


This a an ftp log:

ftp localhost
Connected to localhost.
220 FTP server ready
Name (localhost:root): admin
331 User name okay, need password for admin
Password:
230 User logged in, proceed
Remote system type is UNIX.
ftp> dir
200 Port OK
150 File status okay, about to open data connection
drw-rw-rw-   1 user group 0 Jan  1  1970 Alfresco
drw-rw-rw-   1 user group 0 Jan  1  1970 AVM
226 Closing data connection
ftp> cd Alfresco
250 Requested file action OK
ftp> dir
200 Port OK
150 File status okay, about to open data connection
-rw-rw-rw-   1 user group 26243442 Mar 12 12:51 20090312.zip
-rw-rw-rw-   1 user group 12541772 Mar 19 12:54 3759_20090312_1942.zip
-rw-rw-rw-   1 user group 13433523 Apr  6 14:33 test2.zip
-rw-rw-rw-   1 user group 13433523 Apr  6 14:32 XBRL_info.zip
226 Closing data connection
ftp> del test2.zip
550 Invalid path specified
ftp> get test2.zip
local: test2.zip remote: test2.zip
200 Port OK
500 Invalid path
ftp>del /Alfresco/test2.zip
550 Invalid path specified
ftp>
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It looks like the ftp server is not working correctly, the webinterface is working fine however.
Does anyone have a solution or the same problem?

Our version: Version: Labs - v3.0.0 (Stable 1526)

Kind regards,
Robert

[newmember]

It has to be file permissions. 
Even though you are the admin, go to the alfresco web interface and check the owner of the files are "admin".

[toltech]

Thank you for your reply,

Owner is admin,
When using webdav, the entire directory structure can be seen.
Only with FTP we have this problem.

[toltech]

We have downgrade to Alfresco 2, we simply could not get ftp to work
Thanks for the help

[aghoshal]

Has this issue been resolved? I am facing the same problem. I installed 'alfresco-labs-tomcat-3Stable.tar' at the specified location /opt/alfresco on Ubuntu system
- Folders are not visible/ accessible via FTP
- Though I had an acp file uploaded to Company Home, which was visible, though not downloadable. On trying to download. It gives a 550: Invalid Path error
- On the WebDAV view however it's all fine

[pescha]

This problem appears to be present in the 3.2 release as well.  I was able to ftp in on a fresh install and upload a few files.  The very next time I tried to reconnect, this problem presented itself.  "550 invalid path…" 

The ftp client does not matter.