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iis ftp : FTP path confusion

Matt Hickman
3/24/2008 8:44:31 AM

I am seeing some odd behavior that apparently shows up when the FTP
site is hosted on Server 2003 X64. If anonymous access is disabled,
and logging on with an ID that is the same as a virtual directory on
the FTP site appears to confuse the FTP server. This occurs when,
in IE, you select Page=>Open FTP Site in Windows Explorer.

For example, there is a virtual directory named test under the default
FTP site. Then you use an ID named test to logon to the FTP site
and go to /public off the root. When you open FTP site in Windows
Explorer, it tries to open test/public and errors out with something
like: "550 /test/public The system cannot find the file specified"
-- Unless you happen to have a directory named "public" under test, in
which case it will try to go to the wrong place. Using the Firefox
browser, the behavior is different, but still incorrect.

Is this a known problem?

Thanks

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Matt Hickman

Matt Hickman
3/25/2008 8:32:59 AM

On Mar 24, 10:15=A0pm, "Bernard Cheah [MVP]"
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tp://msmvps.com/blogs/bernard/archive/2007/10/08/iis-ftp-and-ie-7-n...

I am using IE 7 and it opens the expected directory -- then I select
select Page=3D>Open FTP Site in Windows Explorer. Windows Explorer is
what tries to open in a different directory than what IE 7 is
showing.

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I see a empty directory, and if I go up one level, I see the directory
I expected to see.

Thanks for your help. I think I have a handle on the situation now
and can avoid the problem in the future.

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Bernard Cheah [MVP]
3/25/2008 11:15:03 AM

If I get you correctly.
By default, when you login to ftp, it will auto redirect to the folder name
same as the username. if it can't find it revert back to the root.
but in IE 7 - IE changed this, so you will need to use Windows Explorer.
http://msmvps.com/blogs/bernard/archive/2007/10/08/iis-ftp-and-ie-7-no-user-folder-redirection.aspx

but your case of windows explorer reporting error :) this would be the first
time I heard this.
If you can ftp'ing via ftp.exe, where does ftp send you to ? I'm sure is the
ftproot path..... or was it error you seeing?

what do you see in firefox ?

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Regards,
Bernard Cheah
http://www.iis.net/
http://msmvps.com/blogs/bernard/

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