Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 12:37:16 -0800 From: Totem <totem-lists@totem.is-a-geek.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Strange problem with ftpd and IE Message-ID: <42028B7C.8030207@totem.is-a-geek.com>
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Hello, I have a strange problem with the ftpd on FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p5. I am launching the server as a daemon with this command: /usr/libexec/ftpd -AllrD4 Everything works fine except for when using Internet Explorer as an FTP client. I've tested with Mozilla and Filezilla with no problems, but IE isn't working. With IE the names of directories and files get concatenated with their properties. This makes the ftp server unusable because browsing the directory fails. This is what my file structure looks like using the ftp client in FreeBSD: # ftp ftp.mydomain.com Connected to server.mydomain.com. 220 server.mydomain.com FTP server (Version 6.00LS) ready. Name (ftp.mydomain.com:totem): ftp 331 Guest login ok, send your email address as password. Password: 230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply. Remote system type is UNIX. Using binary mode to transfer files. ftp> ls 229 Entering Extended Passive Mode (|||61273|) 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for '/bin/ls'. total 14 drwxrwxr-x 4 Administrator IT Department 512 Feb 2 19:09 Cisco drwxrwxr-x 6 Administrator IT Department 512 Feb 2 00:30 FreeBSD drwxrwxr-x 3 Administrator IT Department 512 Feb 1 23:56 Linux lrwxr-xr-x 1 Administrator 0 14 Feb 2 19:11 Mcafee -> Windows/Mcafee drwxrwxr-x 8 Administrator IT Department 512 Feb 2 19:01 OpenBSD drwxrwxr-x 11 Administrator IT Department 512 Feb 2 19:06 UNIX drwxrwxr-x 101 Administrator IT Department 2560 Feb 2 20:27 Windows lrwxr-xr-x 1 Administrator IT Department 1 Feb 2 20:06 pub -> . 226 Transfer complete. This is what the directory list looks like in IE (roughly translated into text by me): <folder icon> "512 Feb 1 23:56 Linux" <folder icon> "512 Feb 2 00:30 FreeBSD" <folder icon> "512 Feb 2 19:01 OpenBSD" <folder icon> "512 Feb 2 19:06 UNIX" <folder icon> "512 Feb 2 19:09 Cisco" <shortcut icon> "Mcafee" <unkown icon> "1 Feb 2 20:06 pub" Everything inside the quotes shows up as the directory names. I hate IE, but I have to support it. Am I doing something wrong? Is there a bug? Should I recompile? Should I just use a different ftp server? Note: I compiled ftpd myself when I updated RELENG_5.3 on 2005-01-31. I wasn't using ftpd before then. Thanks, Totem
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