problems changing mode

[tariel]

I need to move a web site to a server. So when i want to change the mode of files, ftp says: "500 'SITE chmod ... ' command not understood. !Chmod failed. It might be not understood on a remote site." It says this always no matter what mode i change it to. And because of that the images can't seen, the browser just doesn't load them.
I asked the web-hosting company, and they said something about unix, that the files should be unix-type or something.
Can anyone help me with this problem ?

[yelvington]

This probably has nothing to do with the file permissions mode (which chmod affects) but rather the transfer mode.

If you are able to view HTML in the directories, but not images, then it is likely that you transferred the images in ASCII mode instead of binary. Fix the settings in your FTP client and re-upload them. If you are using a command-line FTP client, use the BINARY command.