I have sort of this in my .netrc:machine ftp.mydomain.com        login mylogin         password mypasswordand while I can succesfully connect with ftp:ftp ftp.mydomain.comand passing credentials to ncftp:ncftp -umylogin -pmypassword ftp.mydomain.comI get this using only ncftp ftp.mydomain.comNcFTP 3.2.4 (May 16, 2010) by Mike Gleason (http://www.NcFTP.com/contact/).Connecting to xxx.xxx.0.140...                                                    ProFTPD 1.3.1 Server (Debian) [::ffff:xxx.xxx.0.140]Login incorrect.                                                                Sleeping 20 seconds... Any advice welcome...
ncftp not looking into .netrc
ncftp;.netrc
man ncftp states, that ncftp do not use .netrc file for storing preferences. See FILES section for details. Instead it use $HOME/.ncftp/ directory.Just connect to your server and use bookmark command for creating a record in $HOME/.ncftp/bookmarks file