From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 13 7:20:37 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7932737B401 for ; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 07:20:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from blacklamb.mykitchentable.net (207-173-226-118.bras01.elk.ca.frontiernet.net [207.173.226.118]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2C8243EB2 for ; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 07:20:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drew@mykitchentable.net) Received: from bigdaddy (bigdaddy [192.168.1.3]) by blacklamb.mykitchentable.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 3AC31EE721; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 07:20:30 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <00f901c2bb17$4ee975c0$0301a8c0@bigdaddy> From: "Drew Tomlinson" To: "James Pole" Cc: References: <00b001c2baab$4ebd7bd0$0301a8c0@bigdaddy> <1042447170.88109.69.camel@localhost> Subject: Re: ftpd and Internet Explorer 6 Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 07:20:30 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Pole" To: "Drew Tomlinson" Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 12:39 AM > On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 15:27, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > > I was attempting to allow a user to get some files via ftp from my FreeBSD > > 4.7 box using the ftp client built into MS Internet Explorer 6 (IE). I > > created a guest account and set the shell to /sbin/nologin. That appears to > > work fine. Then I created a symlink to the directory that contains the > > files for the user but the symlink doesn't appear in the files list in IE. > > All of the .files that were created by the adduser script do show. My > > directory looks like this: > > Why not just use Apache and get the user to get the file via HTTP. MSIE > is a web browser and not a FTP client, after all... Your idea is good for a ongoing permanent solution. However my situation is more of a "one time" thing. As such, I just copied the files into the guest account and the user was able to get them. But I still wonder if there is a way... :) Thanks, Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message