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Microsoft => Microsoft Windows => Windows XP => Topic started by: homie on September 14, 2004, 11:40:32 AM

Title: Need help please :)
Post by: homie on September 14, 2004, 11:40:32 AM

When using IE 6.0 in Windows XP, I try to access my own FTP site by writing:
ftp://[email protected]

(The X's represent my IP address)

Now I should be prompted for my password but I am not! Instead a flashlight appears and I wait and wait until IE eventually crashes.

However if I try to logon anonymously, like this:
ftp://xxx.xxx.xxx
it works fine!

So why won't it let me connect as a user with a password?

Any help appreciated  :)

Title: Re: Need help please :)
Post by: merlin_2 on September 14, 2004, 12:04:57 PM

are you using port 21 and is your script ok>http://www.bambooweb.com/articles/f/i/File_transfer_protocol.html

Title: Re: Need help please :)
Post by: homie on September 15, 2004, 04:47:29 PM

Thanks again MErlin,

your link showed me where I had done wrong. Instead of writing:
ftp://[email protected]
and assuming I would be prompted to write my password (as another website told me would happen, but it didn't happen), I should write:
ftp://MyUserName:[email protected]

So it works fine now, thanks.