Re: problem accessing ftp from the browser

[Todd Johnson <todd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Olga Urban wrote:

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> > I have vsftpd running on Fedora 2. I tried to access my account by 
> > typing ftp://mywebsite.com <ftp://mywebsite.com/> in the browser at 
> > work. And it worked fine (prompted me for username and password and 
> > when I logged in, displayed a list of folders). I can't seem to do it 
> > from home though. I can do it by using ftp client, but not from the 
> > browser. I get the following error:
> >
> > "An error occurred opening that folder on the FTP Server. Make sure 
> > you have permission to access that folder.
> >
> > Details:
> >
> > 200 Switching to ASCII mode.
> >
> > 550 Permission denied."
> >
> > Can someone tell me please why this is happening? Thanks a lot.
> >
> > Olga
> >
> >    
> What browser were you trying to use?
>
> I use IE (version 6).
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try ftp://user@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/ or ftp://user:password@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/.