VS-FTPD Configuration Issue

[Chris Kloiber]

On Wed, 2004-05-12 at 04:51, Jeff Vian wrote:
> 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,
> >  
> >
> 
> 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.
> >  
> >
> 
> This seems related to the anonymous ftp config.
> 
> >If anyone is able to help me I would be most greatfull.

Can you tell them to try:

ftp://username@ftp.bobsfilestore.com/file1.zip

This should prompt them for their password, then get the file.

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Chris Kloiber