Hi, I am getting Can't locate object method "new" via package "Net::FTP::A" at /usr/perl5/5.00503 /sun4-solaris/IO/Socket.pm line 253. error when I try to put a file on the FTP server. This is a new install of Net::FTP and since I am behind the corp firewall I had to install the Net::FTP, Cmd.pm and Config.pm by downloading and cp the files to the local perl_lib folder. Here is the Debug trace and the code. I saw plenty of posting on the net with this problem, but no solutions. Thanks.

Debug Trace

-> perl -w ftp_files.pl
Net::FTP>>> Net::FTP(2.71)
Net::FTP>>>   Exporter
Net::FTP>>>   Net::Cmd(2.24)
Net::FTP>>>   IO::Socket::INET
Net::FTP>>>     IO::Socket(1.1603)
Net::FTP>>>       IO::Handle(1.1505)
Net::FTP=GLOB(0x5dde8)<<< 220  Microsoft FTP Service (Version 5.0).
Net::FTP=GLOB(0x5dde8)>>> user test
Net::FTP=GLOB(0x5dde8)<<< 331 Password required for test.
Net::FTP=GLOB(0x5dde8)>>> PASS ....
Net::FTP=GLOB(0x5dde8)<<< 230 user test logged in.
Net::FTP=GLOB(0x5dde8)>>> CWD test
Net::FTP=GLOB(0x5dde8)<<< 250 CWD command successful.
Net::FTP=GLOB(0x5dde8)>>> ALLO 35
Net::FTP=GLOB(0x5dde8)<<< 200 ALLO command successful.
Net::FTP=GLOB(0x5dde8)>>> PORT 10,208,8,134,156,192
Net::FTP=GLOB(0x5dde8)<<< 200 PORT command successful.
Net::FTP=GLOB(0x5dde8)>>> STOR ndm_rpt_133.csv
Net::FTP=GLOB(0x5dde8)<<< 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for n
+dm_rpt_133.csv.
Can't locate object method "new" via package "Net::FTP::A" at /usr/per
+l5/5.00503
/sun4-solaris/IO/Socket.pm line 253.

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Code

use lib '/opt/autotree/autouser/perl_lib'; # Location of Net::FTP
use strict;
use Net::FTP;
my $ftp = Net::FTP->new($ftp_server,
                    Timeout => 30,
                    Debug => 1)
    or die "Error: Cannot connect to FTP server $ftp_server $@\n";
    
$ftp->login($ftpid, $ftppwd)
    or die "Error: FTP Login Failed $@\n";

$ftp->cwd($ftp_file_dir)
    or die "Error: Unable to change to directory $ftp_file_dir $@\n";

$ftp->put($file)
    or die "Error: Cannot $ftp_cmd file $ftp_file $@\n";

$ftp->quit()
    or warn "Could not quit ftp session gracefully\n";
</p>

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