I downloaded the required jarfile from ant site for ftp task . I get the following error.
C:\antscripts>ant -verbose -f generalftp.xml Apache Ant version 1.6.2 compiled on August 5 2004 Buildfile: generalftp.xml Detected Java version: 1.5 in: C:\bea9\JROCKI~1\jre Detected OS: Windows XP parsing buildfile C:\antscripts\generalftp.xml with URI = file:///C:/antscripts/ generalftp.xml Project base dir set to: C:\antscripts Build sequence for target `ftp' is [ftp] Complete build sequence is [ftp, ] ftp: [ftp] Opening FTP connection to 10.187.218.183 BUILD FAILED C:\antscripts\generalftp.xml:7: error during FTP transfer: java.net.ConnectExcep tion: Connection refused at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.net.FTP.execute(FTP.java:2014) at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:275) at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:364) at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:341) at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.performTasks(Target.java:369) at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTarget(Project.java:1214) at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTargets(Project.java:1062) at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.runBuild(Main.java:673) at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.startAnt(Main.java:188) at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.run(Launcher.java:196) at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:55) My build file is <project name="ftpuse" default="ftp"> <target name="ftp"> <ftp server="10.187.218.183" remotedir="c:\uploads" depends="yes" userid="sparthasarthy12" password="srinivasa27"> <fileset dir="c:\sshkeys"/> </ftp> <echo message="ftp successful"/> </target> </project> what is wrong.......