Date: 13 Jan 2003 21:39:30 +1300 From: James Pole <james.pole@paradise.net.nz> To: Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ftpd and Internet Explorer 6 Message-ID: <1042447170.88109.69.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <00b001c2baab$4ebd7bd0$0301a8c0@bigdaddy> References: <00b001c2baab$4ebd7bd0$0301a8c0@bigdaddy>
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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 -- James Pole ICQ: 21721828 AIM: kiwijames1986 MSN: james.pole@paradise.net.nz SMS: +64-210-455-139 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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