problem accessing ftp from the browser

[Olga Urban]

>>I have vsftpd running on Fedora 2. I tried to access my account by 
>>typing ftp://mywebsite.com <ftp://mywebsite.com/> in the browser at 
>>work. And it worked fine (prompted me for username and password and 
>>when I logged in, displayed a list of folders). I can't seem to do it 
>>from home though. I can do it by using ftp client, but not from the 
>>browser. I get the following error:
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>>"An error occurred opening that folder on the FTP Server. Make sure 
>>you have permission to access that folder.
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>>Details:
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>>200 Switching to ASCII mode.
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>>550 Permission denied."
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>>Can someone tell me please why this is happening? Thanks a lot.
>>
>>Olga
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>What browser were you trying to use?
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>I use IE (version 6).
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try ftp://user@mywebsite.com/ or ftp://user:password@mywebsite.com/. 

I still get the same error. I tried on Mozilla too. I get the following
error: "530: Login incorrect" I know username and password are not the
issue.