RE: [cobalt-users] RAQ4 - Frontpage and FTP permissions - Cobalt, read this

["Ian C. Walmsley" <admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> [mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of WebSite
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> Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 3:33 AM
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> Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] RAQ4 - Frontpage and FTP permissions -
> Cobalt, read this
>
>
> >>This is not a bug. When you use FrontPage, you aren't supposed
> to use FTP
> to
> >>alter any of the files. All site administration is to be done through
> >>FrontPage. Just another of FrontPage's lovely <cough>
> features... (I hate
> FrontPage)
>
> Where have you guys been?  Frontpage, like it or not, is a very popular
> program and many people use it.  I do not use it personally, but as an
> administrator for 2000+ hosted web sites, I will say that about 25% + use
> Frontpage.  That is an incredible number of users.
>
> If your solution is, ' Just don't use FTP', then I am glad you do not work
> for Cobalt Support.
>
> Until I purchased RaQ4 servers, I have NEVER had a problem altering files
> with FTP after uploading them with Frontpage.  In fact,  FTP is a
> compliment
> to ANY web design program, including Frontpage.  To say "Don't use FTP" is
> just a ridiculous answer.
>
> So, I am sorry to de-bunk your answer, but, this is an obvious
> bug that any
> Linux administrator worth his/her salt can readily identify as such.
>
> Bill M.


On a RaQ3 FrontPage and FTP can live hapily side by side - however if you
use FTP on a RaQ4 you will crash the extensions, and you cannot re-create
them.

This is not a 'feature' of MS, this is a bug with the RaQ4.

I have to agree with Bill, because what Cobalt are effectivly saying is that
on a FrontPage web you cannot run any scripts - why because 'nobody' does
not have the rights to do so, also the permissions will be wrong - so
normally one would FTP in and alter those - problem bang goes your
extensions.

I know that FrontPage or Micro$oft is a dirty word on this group amongst
some people, but at the end of the day, FP does the job a lot easier for
many people - after all if it helps to create business for web hosts, why
the moaning.

Come on Cobalt let's have a fix.....

Ian