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

["Dan Kriwitsky" <list1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 
> 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.


I'm using XP and it works for me. Are you sure they're putting ftp://
and using a colon not semi-colon between the user name and password.
Must be the siteadmin username and password.

Under IE Tools and Advanced I have "Enable folder view for FTP sites"
checked. I don't know if that's the default config.
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C2003 Dan Kriwitsky

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