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If I use the following command;
New-PSDrive -Name "D" -PSProvider "PsFtp" -Hostname "$host" -Port 21 -Root "/" -Credential $Credentials -Persist
I get the following error;
New-PSDrive : When you use the Persist parameter, the root must be a file system location on a remote computer.

I've tried to use other values for the root, but I cannot seem to get it to work. Is this option supported?

The README is misleading when it says you can add a drive without credentials. Even anonymous FTP access requires credentials.

Either remove the misleading example, or automatically use anonymous credentials for drives created without credentials.

Hey man, awesome library! Is it possible to have this published (if done already, instructions on the readme) on PowerShell online gallery. So it can be installed like:

Install-Module PsFtpProvider

Excellent implementation as a PowerShell provider! To get greater usage of this module and make it easier for others to install it could you publish it to the PowerShell Gallery?

Many thanks

It's moved again, now to https://github.com/robinrodricks/FluentFTP

Maybe update the version too (16.* -> 19.*)

I started using your PsFTPProvider and was able to compile w/o any errors. When creating a new PS-Drive I get the following error:

PS C:\[...]\PsFtpProvider\bin\Debug\net46\publish> New-PSDrive -PSProvider PsFtp -Name 'MyFTPSite' -Hostname 'ftp.rz.uni-wuerzburg.de' -Port 21 -Root /
New-PSDrive : Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
At line:1 char:1
+ New-PSDrive -PSProvider PsFtp -Name 'MyFTPSite' -Hostname 'ftp.rz.uni ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidOperation: (:) [New-PSDrive], NullReferenceException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : NewDriveProviderException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.NewPSDriveCommand

For testing purposes I'm using a publicly available FTP server with anonymous access.

The provider is loaded

PS C:\[...]\PsFtpProvider\bin\Debug\net46\publish> Get-PSProvider

Name                 Capabilities                                      Drives
----                 ------------                                      ------
Registry             ShouldProcess, Transactions                       {HKLM, HKCU}
Alias                ShouldProcess                                     {Alias}
Environment          ShouldProcess                                     {Env}
FileSystem           Filter, ShouldProcess, Credentials                {C, A, D, H...}
Function             ShouldProcess                                     {Function}
Variable             ShouldProcess                                     {Variable}
PsFtp                Credentials                                       {}

Do you have any clue what goes wrong here? If you need any further information pls let me know...

Tracking issue for PowerShell/PowerShell#6181

PS Core uses an argument transformation attribute ArgumentToEncodingTransformationAttribute on its FileSystemProvider commandlets' -Encoding parameters to convert well-known encoding names like UTF8 to System.Text.Encoding objects. This attribute is marked internal so PsFtpProvider cannot use it.

For now, the user needs to type gc -Encoding ([System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8) instead of gc -Encoding UTF8 and so on.

PsFtpProvider has a copy of ArgumentToEncodingTransformationAttribute from PS Core's source. Remove it when upstream exposes it or provides an alternative.