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

["William J.A. Brillinger" <billy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:24 AM 28/03/03 -0700, you wrote:
> On Friday, March 28, 2003, at 10:09 ante, Dan Kriwitsky wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > ftp://username:password@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/../../web
>
> Tried that.  Didn't work for the client.  It's possible there's some XP-IE 
> interaction, but I didn't have XP available to test with.
>
> Also tried:
> ftp://username:password@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx//web
>
> Lillith K. Lesanges

We have *not* found IE to be a reliable FTP client at all. Works for some, 
not others.

We give people an old copy of WS-FTP-le. Doing this, we can even 
pre-configure it for them they unzip it and it works right from there no 
install required.

- Bill




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