How would I write a terminal command to download a folder with wget from a Media Temple (gs) server?

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Published on 2010-04-21T20:52:10Z Indexed on 2010/04/21 21:03 UTC
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I'm trying to download a folder using wget on the Terminal (I'm usin a Mac if that matters) because my ftp client sucks and keeps timing out. It doesn't stay connected for long. So I was wondering if I could use wget to connect via ftp protocol to the server to download the directory in question. I have searched around in the internet for this and have attempted to write the command but it keeps failing. So assuming the following:

ftp username is: [email protected] ftp host is: ftp.s12345.gridserver.com ftp password is: somepassword

I have tried to write the command in the following ways:

wget -r ftp://[email protected]:[email protected]/path/to/desired/folder/

wget -r ftp://serveradmin:[email protected]/path/to/desired/folder/

When I try the first way I get this error:

 Bad port number.

When I try the second way I get a little further but I get this error:

Resolving s12345.gridserver.com... 71.46.226.79
Connecting to s12345.gridserver.com|71.46.226.79|:21... connected.
Logging in as serveradmin ... 
Login incorrect.

What could I be doing wrong?

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