VS-FTPD Configuration Issue

[Jeff Vian]

mlists at tdbnetworks.org wrote:

>I'm currently in the process of setting up a ftp server using vs-ftpd
>unfortunately I'm having a bit of a problem in that I need to pass urls to
>various files to customers through a html page.
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>The files in question will all be under the same directory structure for
>each customer however each customer will have there own account with private
>and general file storage areas.
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>The problem is as followes if I tell a customer to access the url
>ftp://ftp.bobsfilestore.com then IE attempts to connect to that host,
>prompts for login details and then displays there personal file area,
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This gets them to their home areas.

>however if they try and access ftp://ftp.bobsfilestore.com/file1.zip then IE
>just responds with a "The page cannot be displayed" message.
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This seems related to the anonymous ftp config.

>If anyone is able to help me I would be most greatfull.
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>Regards
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>Richard
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