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Sudden connection issues with my ftp site...suspect XP SP2



Sudden connection issues with my ftp site...suspect XP SP2 Marshallr45
6/30/2005 12:19:04 PM
iis ftp: I've been running a ftp site on NT, IIS 4 since it was new. Never had a
problem. Ran an UNIX one on a RISC server before that. What seemed like all
of a sudden, I recieved calls from clients that could not longer connect
using IE 6. Low and behold, I could not connect locally with IE 6 either.
That surver was getting old, I had a drive crash and switched the ftp root
directory to another drive and all seemed fine. My Windows users still could
not connect while a Mac OS 9 user upload a file using Fetch while I was on
the phone with the Windows person. I called in a tech we could figure it out.
While this was going on I was paralleling the install on a different computer
running Server 2000, IIS 5. I did all the updates. I have the same problem.
can't get logged on. You can ping the ip and get a reply. I can log on with
the command line and manually issue the ftp commands, but when I use IE6 it
does not pop and ask for a log-in. Selecting "login as" under the file pull
down doesn't help either. Here is the error message....
"Windows cannot access this folder. Make sure you typed the file name
correctly and that you have permission to access the folder. Details: The
Re: Sudden connection issues with my ftp site...suspect XP SP2 Dave
6/30/2005 10:15:23 PM
yes, there was something... i got it working here with ie6 after xp sp2, but
i don't remember what i did. go through the security settings and try
anything in there that might relate, and also try turning off the popup
blocker, make sure the firewall is off, or was it something else??? i
forget right now, but its in there somewhere! if you don't find it post
back here and i'll try to remember what it was tomorrow.

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Re: Sudden connection issues with my ftp site...suspect XP SP2 Bernard Cheah [MVP]
7/4/2005 12:00:00 AM
command line ftp.exe is working ? you can login and download files ?
any changes in term of networking ? says firewall policy, etc ?
what's the status code in IIS ftp log ?

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Regards,
Bernard Cheah
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http://www.iiswebcastseries.com/
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