VS-FTPD Configuration Issue
Michael Gargiullo
mgargiullo at warpdrive.net
Tue May 11 17:11:46 UTC 2004
On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 13:01, 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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,
> however if they try and access ftp://ftp.bobsfilestore.com/file1.zip then IE
> just responds with a "The page cannot be displayed" message.
>
> If anyone is able to help me I would be most greatfull.
IE is the worlds greatest web browser! ok seriously make you links like
so:
ftp://ftp.bobsfilestore.com
and
ftp://anonymous@ftp.bobsfilestore.com
IE should realize that the latter is for anonymous access.
Now the important part. Did you setup VSFtp to allow anonymous access?
It's off by default.
-Mike
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