Greetings, I am wondering if anybody has any idea on how I might achieve my programming goal. I am FTPing to KCM_Ext server and am trying to run programmatically a batch file to copy a file from that machine's C drive to a path on the machine's E drive. There is a VB code-behind page on a server named KCM_Int. There is a server named KCM_Ext. The KCM_Ext has a C drive and an E drive. From the VB code-behind page on KCM_Int, I am FTPing to the other server KCM_Ext. The KCM_Int server has the ftp file and response.tmp file as well as the VB code-behind. It also has a cmd.exe. The KCM_Ext has cmd.exe and files.bat. The cmd.exe and files.bat are in the same folder on the C drive as the file that the batch file's code is trying to copy. So I need not change the directory once I have finished FTPing to KCM_Ext. When I manually open cmd.exe on KCM_Ext, it already is at the directory C:\WINDOWS\system32\LogFiles\W3SVC1649540525 that has the PDF file to be copied by the batch file, the cmd.exe, and the files.bat. The code in the files.bat is the following: @ECHO OFF copy %1 %2 /v /y CLS EXIT When I go to KCM_Ext, open the cmd.exe, and run the bat file's code using the hard-coded "copy justTesting_files.pdf E:\site\files\files" I can copy the file successfully. Farther up in the code-behind, the string variables TheFile and pathToWhichToCopyOnKCM_EXT have been given values already (for example, justTesting_files.pdf and E:\site\files\files respectively). The applicable code in the code-behind has the following lines: Dim FtpDirectory As String = Request.ServerVariables("APPL_PHYSICAL_PATH") & "ftp\" Dim my_arDirList As Array = Split(Replace(myCurrentDir, myRoot, ""), "\") Dim myObjWriter As StreamWriter = New StreamWriter(FtpDirectory & "wwwupload3.ftp") myObjWriter.WriteLine("open " & TheSite) myObjWriter.WriteLine(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings.Item("FTP_user")) myObjWriter.WriteLine(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings.Item("FTP_pass")) myObjWriter.WriteLine("cmd.exe -s:files.bat " & TheFile.ToString() & " " & pathToWhichToCopyOnKCM_Ext.ToString()) myObjWriter.WriteLine("bye") myObjWriter.Flush() myObjWriter.Close() myObjWriter = Nothing Dim myStrCMD As String = FtpDirectory & "ftp.exe -s:" & FtpDirectory & "wwwupload3.ftp" Dim myStrTempFile As String = FtpDirectory & "response3.tmp" myStrCMD = FtpDirectory & "cmd.exe /c " & myStrCMD & " > " & myStrTempFile Dim myScript As Object = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell") Call myScript.Run(myStrCMD, 0, True) myScript = Nothing I get no error but the batch file's code is not copying the justTesting_file.pdf to the E drive's path on KCM_Ext (E:\site\files\files). I even tried in the code-behind to hard-code rather than use the variables TheFile and pathToWhichToCopyOnKCM_Ext, but it made no difference. If I am on KCM_Ext and open cmd.exe and type "copy justTesting_files.pdf E:\site\files\files /v /y" I can copy successfully of course the file. So I think that in the VB code-behind page I am not coding correctly to use cmd.exe on the remote KCM_Ext server to run its batch file and/or to pass correctly the parameters to run the batch file. I have tried various lines of code from the code-behind to run cmd.exe to run the batch file passing it parameters to do the copying of the file. I get no error but the file is not copied successfully. I know I am FTPing to KCM_Ext successfully because I tried in the code-behind the following line of code and the response3.tmp file on KCM_Int shows the files within KCM_Ext's C:\Windows\System32\LogFiles\W3SVC1649540525: myObjWriter.WriteLine("dir") Also, if I use the following line of code I can rename successfully the file after FTPing to KCM_Ext: myObjWriter.WriteLine("rename " & TheFile & " " & "justTesting_files_NewName.pdf") From my research, it seems that I cannot use FTP once the code-behind arrives at KCM_Ext because I need to copy to a different drive and not just to another path on the same drive. From my research, it seems that FTP commands cannot execute cmd.exe or a batch file since FTP was created to transfer files basically. I of course might not understand correctly though and maybe I am mistaken. Here are only some of the various versions of the line of code that I have tried to use (in place of the line of code in the above code that I separated with a space above and below it): myObjWriter.WriteLine("-s:" & "files.bat" & " " & TheFile & " " & pathToWhichToCopyOnKCMExtWeb02) or myObjWriter.WriteLine("files.bat" & " " & TheFile & " " & pathToWhichToCopyOnKCMExtWeb02) or myObjWriter.WriteLine("cmd.exe /c files.bat" & " " & TheFile & " " & pathToWhichToCopyOnKCMExtWeb02) or myObjWriter.WriteLine("echo cmd.exe /c >> files.bat" & " " & TheFile & " " & pathToWhichToCopyOnKCMExtWeb02) or myObjWriter.WriteLine("START cmd.exe CALL files.bat justTesting_files.pdf E:\site\files\files") If anybody has any idea what I am doing wrong, I would be very grateful if he or she would please be so kind as to let me know. I thank you in advance.