Automated FTP from Unix to Active Directory Server

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Automated Unix to Windows Active Directory FTP

I have done many automated FTP scripts using the following logic:

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echo "Starting the FTP transfer..."
\{ echo "
    open 192.168.1.100
    user username password
    ascii
    put textfile.txt
    close "
\} | ftp -i -n -v > ftptransfer.log

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But now i need to log into an FTP site on a Windows Active Directory server. The username that I need to pass to the script has a domain name and a backslash in front of it: "AD\username". I have tried escaping the backslash (AD\\username) and using various quoting combinations, but I cannot get the script to pass the username as AD\username. It usually gets sent as ADusername, without the backslash, which does not work.

Any ideas?

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FYI

Doing it this way is working for me now:

Cheers!