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subscrioption sftp doesn't work on FMEserver 2018.1.0.2

  • October 9, 2018
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Hi,

I'm trying to connect to sftp server by creating subscription on FME server 2018.1.0.2 to upload some files to sftp server, but I get this error "Host name is invalid", however I use the same host name on WinSCP and works normally. what am I missing?

can someone please explain what shoudl I do and what steps I should take.

I flollowed the steps here

http://docs.safe.com/fme/html/FME_Server_Documentation/Content/ReferenceManual/SFTP_Subscriber.htm

 

Thanks

Saman

 

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    nathanatsafe
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    • October 9, 2018

    Hi @samanazizgeomap, thanks for your question.

    How have you specified the host name for you subscription? If your sftp site is accessed at something like sftp://ftp.myftpserver.com, the host name should be ftp.myftpserver.com in your subscription. In my testing keeping the sftp:// part resulted in the same "Host name is invalid" error for me.

    Hope this helps.

    Nathan

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    Hi Nathan, Thank you very much for your answer. actually I'm using sftp://ip-address, ip-address is numeric. I guess that cause the problem. I changed it to ftp.ip-address but of course it wouldn't work since it needs to be ftp.myserver.com. I will ask around if I get proper ftp link. but why FME server doesn't recognize ip-address? it's easy to open in WinSCP.

    Thanks again.

    Saman Aziz.

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    Hi @samanazizgeomap, thanks for your question.

    How have you specified the host name for you subscription? If your sftp site is accessed at something like sftp://ftp.myftpserver.com, the host name should be ftp.myftpserver.com in your subscription. In my testing keeping the sftp:// part resulted in the same "Host name is invalid" error for me.

    Hope this helps.

    Nathan

    Hi Nathan, Thank you very much for your answer. actually I'm using sftp://ip-address, ip-address is numeric. I guess that cause the problem. I changed it to ftp.ip-address but of course it wouldn't work since it needs to be ftp.myserver.com. I will ask around if I get proper ftp link. but why FME server doesn't recognize ip-address? it's easy to open in WinSCP.

     

    Thanks again.

     

     

    Saman Aziz

     

     

     

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    Hi Nathan, Thank you very much for your answer. actually I'm using sftp://ip-address, ip-address is numeric. I guess that cause the problem. I changed it to ftp.ip-address but of course it wouldn't work since it needs to be ftp.myserver.com. I will ask around if I get proper ftp link. but why FME server doesn't recognize ip-address? it's easy to open in WinSCP.

     

    Thanks again.

     

     

    Saman Aziz

     

     

     

    @samanazizgeomap did you try just the ip-address as the host? It seems to work for me.

     

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