I don't know if i'm posting in the right place here, but if you could help or redirect me to a more useful forum please do so! Thanks

In order to use greymatter I am aware you have to do some Chmoding. All the ftp programmes I have came across only support chmoding in Unix hosts, and I am under windows. I had greymatter on a website years ago and it worked pretty well, despite me having windows. Do you have any ideas of ftp programmes that support chmoding under windows?

chmod is a unix/linux command. It doesn't work under windows. You'll need to determine what permissions the chmod is wanting to place on the files and then give the files the same permissions through windows.

If I knew more about windows servers I'd give you more detail. Unfortunately I always use unix/linux servers.

I did a quick search and cuteFTPhttp://www.cuteftp.com/cuteftp/ looks like it could handle the permission change on Windows IIS servers. I haven't ever used it, but it's worth looking into. There a 30 day trial download.

use filezilla http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/
you can cmod and upload and everything with this

Thanks raptrex. I just downloaded filezilla and will compare it to the ftp program I currently use. I tend to like to use open source projects.

chezzy this might work for you. A screen shot of the program shows a context menu with a 'File attributes' command. This might be just what you're looking for. Remember though that chmod is only for unix/linux so you'll need to find out what the permissions mean and set them with the equivalent on your windows server.

Hey,

I logged into my FTP without any programmes on windows (by typing ftp.oh-crud.co.uk into my address bar) and went through to a file, right clicked on it and clicked 'Properties'. On this properties panel was a section on 'Permissions', set out like so:

Permissions: Read Write Execute
Owner|||||||||||||x|||||||x||||||x
Group
All Users


Where I have wrote 'x', there was a tick inside a tickbox. Is this the windows equivalent to Chmoding?

P.s, Thanks to everyone who's helping me, as you can tell i'm quite new to this kinda thing!

The permissions you found are exactly the windows equivalent of chmod. The chmod command you're supposed to enter most likely contains 3 numbers like 644 or 777 or 755 or something like that. The first number is for the owner, the second is for the group, and the third is for users. Each number is a decimal representing the binary sum for the read, write, and execute permission. read=4, write=2, execute=1

So if the number is 7 for the owner then it means you need to have all three ticks present for the owner. (4 + 2 + 1 = 7)

If the number is 5 for the group you need to have the ticks for read and execute present for the group. (4 + 1 =5 )

If your chmod command has things like rwx then they stand for read, write, execute and will also be in the order of owner, group, users, but I'm guessing the command you were given is of the 3 digit variety.

Hope that helps. I'm glad you found a way to make the changes. And we were all new to this once.

Hey, thank you so much!

Glad to help. Let us know if you get greymatter working or if you need more help changing permissions.