Re: ftpd and Internet Explorer 6
- Original Message - From: John [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 3:48 PM Subject: Re: ftpd and Internet Explorer 6 Drew- I missed the orig post somehow.. So I'm curious how you attempted to use MSIE to get the file via FTP. If FTPD was configured correctly, it should have been as easy as typing this in the address bad: ftp://USER:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/dir/file.name or just to the dir.. it should show up. It was. Everything was there except the symlink. As a workaround, I copied the files to the user's home directory and he was able to retrieve them. It's just the symlink that wouldn't show. One thing to check, is that passive FTP is checked in Tools - options - advanced tab. I didn't check that but it shouldn't matter as I could get the rest of the files. AFAIK, passive/active ftp settings wouldn't discriminate on symlinks only. They work on the connection as a whole and the fact that I could see or get anything means that this wasn't an issue. Thanks for your response. Drew HTH, John Ricker - Original Message - From: Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: James Pole [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 9:20 AM Subject: Re: ftpd and Internet Explorer 6 - Original Message - From: James Pole [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 12:39 AM On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 15:27, Drew Tomlinson wrote: I was attempting to allow a user to get some files via ftp from my FreeBSD 4.7 box using the ftp client built into MS Internet Explorer 6 (IE). I created a guest account and set the shell to /sbin/nologin. That appears to work fine. Then I created a symlink to the directory that contains the files for the user but the symlink doesn't appear in the files list in IE. All of the .files that were created by the adduser script do show. My directory looks like this: Why not just use Apache and get the user to get the file via HTTP. MSIE is a web browser and not a FTP client, after all... Your idea is good for a ongoing permanent solution. However my situation is more of a one time thing. As such, I just copied the files into the guest account and the user was able to get them. But I still wonder if there is a way... :) Thanks, Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: ftpd and Internet Explorer 6
On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 15:27, Drew Tomlinson wrote: I was attempting to allow a user to get some files via ftp from my FreeBSD 4.7 box using the ftp client built into MS Internet Explorer 6 (IE). I created a guest account and set the shell to /sbin/nologin. That appears to work fine. Then I created a symlink to the directory that contains the files for the user but the symlink doesn't appear in the files list in IE. All of the .files that were created by the adduser script do show. My directory looks like this: Why not just use Apache and get the user to get the file via HTTP. MSIE is a web browser and not a FTP client, after all... - James -- James Pole ICQ: 21721828 AIM: kiwijames1986 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SMS: +64-210-455-139 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: ftpd and Internet Explorer 6
- Original Message - From: James Pole [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 12:39 AM On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 15:27, Drew Tomlinson wrote: I was attempting to allow a user to get some files via ftp from my FreeBSD 4.7 box using the ftp client built into MS Internet Explorer 6 (IE). I created a guest account and set the shell to /sbin/nologin. That appears to work fine. Then I created a symlink to the directory that contains the files for the user but the symlink doesn't appear in the files list in IE. All of the .files that were created by the adduser script do show. My directory looks like this: Why not just use Apache and get the user to get the file via HTTP. MSIE is a web browser and not a FTP client, after all... Your idea is good for a ongoing permanent solution. However my situation is more of a one time thing. As such, I just copied the files into the guest account and the user was able to get them. But I still wonder if there is a way... :) Thanks, Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
ftpd and Internet Explorer 6
I was attempting to allow a user to get some files via ftp from my FreeBSD 4.7 box using the ftp client built into MS Internet Explorer 6 (IE). I created a guest account and set the shell to /sbin/nologin. That appears to work fine. Then I created a symlink to the directory that contains the files for the user but the symlink doesn't appear in the files list in IE. All of the .files that were created by the adduser script do show. My directory looks like this: -rw-r--r-- 1 guest guest 771 Jan 12 18:07 .cshrc -rw-r--r-- 1 guest guest 255 Jan 12 18:07 .login -rw-r--r-- 1 guest guest 165 Jan 12 18:07 .login_conf -rw--- 1 guest guest 371 Jan 12 18:07 .mail_aliases -rw-r--r-- 1 guest guest 331 Jan 12 18:07 .mailrc -rw-r--r-- 1 guest guest 801 Jan 12 18:07 .profile -rw--- 1 guest guest 276 Jan 12 18:07 .rhosts -rw-r--r-- 1 guest guest 852 Jan 12 18:07 .shrc lrwxr-xr-x 1 root guest 54 Jan 12 18:09 Files - /ftp/guest Is there something I can do to get the symlink to show in IE? My user is very green and trying to teach him how to use an ftp client is something I'd rather avoid. Thanks, Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message