besides the excellent suggestion by Dog and Pony, you should consider if you need to use "passive" mode ftp. If there's a firewall between your client and your FTP Server, there may be some rules which disallow the FTP Server from opening the data connection and sending data. Hence the need for passive mode. Do you run the same script on a Unix Server to the NT FTP server or the same script on the same client to a UNIX FTP server? If it's the former (Unix to NT FTP server), the FTP_PASSIVE environment variable may be set in which case Net::FTP will work appropriately. You don't show the code but is the ls not returning anything or failing? Most passive ftp problems will show up as a long lag time when trying to retrieve from or list on the FTP server. Appropriate error checking should point you in the right direction.

-derby