Editing Post login commands

Some outdated servers default to legacy file systems not supported by modern FTP clients such as FileZilla. Modern FTP software implements TVFS as defined by [http://tools.ietf.org/search/rfc3659 RFC 3659] instead.

When the FTP server on such a legacy platform has its default set to use a filesystem unsupported by modern FTP clients, then you may require some custom commands to be issued to tell the FTP server to expect a more modern Unix/Linux or Windows file system syntax, so that the server can successfully communicate with modern clients. Manually entering these commands in FileZilla does not work as:
a) they do not apply to the transfer connections which are separate from the browsing connection
b) and/or by then the FileZilla client already finished the login to the server and commands may need to be sent prior to logging in.


'''Simple IBM i workaround: specify '/' (without the quotes) for default remote directory on the Site manager - advanced tab
'''

Workaround:  Use the post-login command feature of the site-manager as follows: 
- Add a new site-manager entry and close FileZilla. 
- Next open sitemanager.xml in the settings directory of FileZilla and add a PostLoginCommands element inside the Server element. 
- Inside PostLoginCommand, use the Command element, with the actual command to execute as text.

General example:

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
 <FileZilla3>
     <Servers>
         <Server>
             <Host>127.0.0.1</Host>
             <Port>21</Port>
             <PostLoginCommands>
               <Command>VALID FTP COMMAND 1</Command>
               <Command>VALID FTP COMMAND n</Command>
             </PostLoginCommands>
         </Server>
     </Servers>
 </FileZilla3>

Example for a non-secure connection to IBM i, i5/OS, OS/400, AS/400 and iSeries (works regardless of FTP server default settings for NAMEFMT, CURDIR and LISTFMT):

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
 <FileZilla3>
     <Servers>
        <Server>
            <Host>system_name</Host>
            <Port>21</Port>
            <Protocol>0</Protocol>
            <Type>0</Type>
            <User>user_profile</User>
            <Logontype>2</Logontype>
            <TimezoneOffset>0</TimezoneOffset>
            <PasvMode>MODE_DEFAULT</PasvMode>
            <MaximumMultipleConnections>0</MaximumMultipleConnections>
            <EncodingType>Auto</EncodingType>
            <PostLoginCommands>
                <Command>SITE NAMEFMT 1</Command>
                <Command>SITE LISTFMT 1</Command>
            </PostLoginCommands>
            <BypassProxy>0</BypassProxy>
            <Name>system_name</Name>
            <Comments></Comments>
            <LocalDir></LocalDir>
            <RemoteDir></RemoteDir>
            <SyncBrowsing>0</SyncBrowsing>system_name
        </Server>     
    </Servers>
 </FileZilla3>

NOTES:

1. If connecting using this site-manager entry, these commands get executed in the transfer connections as well.

2. Sitemanager.xml file is located in %APPDATA%/FileZilla on Windows 7.

3. On Apple Mac OS X the file is located in /Users/user-name/.filezilla/sitemanager.xml