Hi,

I use Gladinet on a Windows 2008 server to connect to a CDN. It works great: I can create symbolic links in Windows and programmatically put files on the CDN. I love Gladinet for this! However, I would like to be able to use the symbolic links to my Gladinet drive through FTP as well - this way, users can simply FTP to the 'cdn' directory in their account to upload files to the CDN. A brilliant solution it would be! But I cannot get it to work :(

As long as I am on the remote computer (programmatically, or using Explorer or a command prompt) I have no issue accessing the Gladinet drive by using symbolic links to it. When I get FTP access to my server, I can also see the folders created by symbolic links to my Gladinet drive. However, when I try to open the Gladinet folder using FTP, I get an error "550 The System Cannot Find The File Specified".

When I create a similar symbolic link to a physical folder on a different drive (i.e. non-Gladinet drive), I can access the directory through FTP without issue. I notice similar behavior when I create a IIS virtual directory to Gladinet instead: virtual directories are accessible through FTP as long as they are on a physical, non-Gladinet drive. As long as I'm on the local machine I can however access the Gladinet based directories.

Is this an inherent limitation of Gladinet, or is there a kind of security issue that I am not aware of? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Regs,
Andor

Ok, I see the problem is bigger than that. I also cannot use things like Robocopy in a scheduled task unless I am physically logged in to the machine. So it seems like Gladinet is useless for things like backups and maintenance, but it's basically meant as a different interface for Dropbox and the like? If I need to login to the machine I might as well use FTP or so. I liked Gladinet because I assumed it let me automate some tasks.

However, I understand that with the team edition (which I understand costs 30 USD per month for three servers and an extra 9.99 for each extra server?) I can in fact get a completely different Gladinet application that runs as a service and hence will let me automate tasks. Is that correct? Does this indeed mean that with the Team Edition I would in fact be able to use Gladinet with things like scheduled tasks for synchronization and FTP?

Thanks again for your reply!