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Subject: Re: ftpd and Internet Explorer 6
From: James Pole <james.pole@paradise.net.nz>
To: Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net>
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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

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