Error loading 5pp Powershell 530 not logged in

Question

I am trying to get a PowerShell script to work. I am very new to PowerShell, so something stupid could have been missed.

$sourceuri = "ftp://ftp.example.com/myfolder/myfile.xml"
$username = "user"
$password = "password"

# Create a FTPWebRequest object to handle the connection to the ftp server
$ftprequest = [System.Net.FtpWebRequest]::create($sourceuri)

$credentials = New-Object System.Net.NetworkCredential($username,$password)
# set the request network credentials for an authenticated connection
$ftprequest.Credentials = $credentials

$ftprequest.Method = [System.Net.WebRequestMethods+Ftp]::UploadFile
$ftprequest.UseBinary = 1
$ftprequest.KeepAlive = 0

# read in the file to upload as a byte array
$content = gc -en byte $fileName
$ftprequest.ContentLength = $content.Length
# get the request stream, and write the bytes into it
$rs = $ftprequest.GetRequestStream()
$rs.Write($content, 0, $content.Length)
# be sure to clean up after ourselves
$rs.Close()
$rs.Dispose()

I get the following error:

Exception calling "GetRequestStream" with "0" argument(s): "The remote server returned an   error: (530) Not logged in."
At C:\temp\copyfile.ps1:63 char:35
+ $rs = $ftprequest.GetRequestStream( <<<< )

I can connect through IE to it easily, so maybe something else is wrong, so it's fast in C #:

        string filePath = @"C:\temp\myfile.xml";
        string FTPAddress = @"ftp://ftp.example.com/myfolder";
        FtpWebRequest request = (FtpWebRequest)FtpWebRequest.Create(FTPAddress + "/" + Path.GetFileName(filePath));
        request.Method = WebRequestMethods.Ftp.UploadFile;
        string username = "user";
        string password = "password";
        request.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(username, password);
        request.UsePassive = true;
        request.UseBinary = true;
        request.KeepAlive = false;

        FileInfo file = new FileInfo(filePath);
        request.ContentLength = file.Length;
        int buffLength = 2048;
        byte[] buff = new byte[buffLength];
        int contentLen;

        FileStream fs = file.OpenRead();

        Stream strm = request.GetRequestStream();
        contentLen = fs.Read(buff, 0, buffLength);
        while(contentLen !=0 )
        {
            strm.Write(buff, 0, contentLen);
            contentLen = fs.Read(buff, 0, buffLength);
        }

        strm.Close();
        fs.Close();

C # works fine, not sure why this is not working and hopes someone can point out my error

EDIT

I decided, but that would be something stupid. The password had a "$" sign, it was in double quotes, but I did not understand that it should be avoided, I just did not think about it at all. Ironically, I had to change my password, etc., so that it was safe to publish messages.

Answer 1

Jon:

, - . "$", , , , . .., .

Answer 2

, $sign . .

Answer 3

In my case, the reason was that the FTP server required SSL. Changing this property on request solved my problem:

request.EnableSsl = true;