- 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
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