RE: problem accessing ftp from the browser

["Olga Urban" <olga urbantimes net>]

> 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:
>
> "An error occurred opening that folder on the FTP Server. Make sure 
> you have permission to access that folder.
>
> Details:
>
> 200 Switching to ASCII mode.
>
> 550 Permission denied."
>
> Can someone tell me please why this is happening? Thanks a lot.
>
> Olga
>
What browser were you trying to use?

I use IE (version 6).