From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8219 invoked by alias); 29 Apr 2002 16:58:32 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 8211 invoked from network); 29 Apr 2002 16:58:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO student.gc.maricopa.edu) (140.198.44.89) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 29 Apr 2002 16:58:31 -0000 Received: from [140.198.38.34] (HELO gcmail.maricopa.edu) by student.gc.maricopa.edu (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.4.8) with ESMTP id 858910 for cygwin@cygwin.com; Mon, 29 Apr 2002 09:58:30 -0700 Message-ID: <3CCD7B8D.721E59D@gcmail.maricopa.edu> Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 12:09:00 -0000 From: Mark Edgar X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Odd question References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-04/txt/msg01615.txt.bz2 Internet Explorer is stupid about FTP. I've seen this problem before; what happens is that IE thinks that your remote working directory is always set to the root / when it is really something like /home/user, hence the problems navigating out of your home directory. If your version of IE automatically converts the URL from ftp://user@server/ to ftp://user@server/home/user, then that's a good thing and it is the correct behaviour. I've had other problems with IE such as it replacing the URL ftp://user@server/path with ftp://user:passwd@server/path at random times while browsing the remote site. I *don't* want my password displayed in the URL! This is with IE 5.50.4522.1800. Basically, the solution is to use a better FTP client. -Mark Daniel Adams wrote: > > I have an FTP server setup using the Cygwin stuff. I am also behind a DSL > style firewall, but all works fine. When at work I tried to get into my > computer using FTP and it worked ok. I was rather puzzled when I couldn't > navigate out of my home directory(It is a Win2k machine) and into any > directory elsewhere in the directory structure. My home directory was on C: > and I desired to get to a folder on my D: drive. I then used Netscape > navigator to connect and all went fine. The whole snafu only happened when I > use Internet Explorer, it seems to rename the directory thing to > ftp://dan@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/ to replace ftp://dan@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/home/dan. I > was wondering if anyone else has seen something similar to this, and if > anyone has an idea of a workaround. > > -- > Sincerely, > Daniel Adams - dpa3@dana.ucc.nau.edu > http://dana.ucc.nau.edu/~dpa3 > > 1 Peter 4:10 (NIV)- Each one should use whatever gift he has received to > serve others, faithfully administering God's grace in its various forms. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/