Re: [cobalt-users] Overcoming the /~username problem

[David Lucas <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:58 AM 3/28/2003, you wrote:
> On Friday, March 28, 2003, at 06:02 ante, Ian wrote:
> > Anyone any ideas of how to easily overcome the age of problem of people 
> > loggin into a Raq4r and landing in the siteadmin folder and then 
> > uploading everything by mistake to that folder.
>
> While I agree that in general, education is the answer, I have found a 
> situation where education cannot help.
>
> End users (ie, clients) who use IE as their FTP client.  I have a couple 
> client for whom no amount of education will change this basic fact.
>
> I cannot determine -any- URL which will get IE to find the siteadmin web 
> folder.
>
> I tried symlinks (to no avail, even with srm.conf changes).  In the end, 
> the only thing I could think of was to manually change the homedir of the 
> user in /etc/passwd (via vipw).  That, of course, totally mucks up the GUI.
>
> Anyone else have any suggestions beyond 'try another ftp client' and 'live 
> with a broken gui'?


Just how does one use IE as a FTP client?



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