Weird FTP transfer connections

[DSG]

This is not about ws_ftp, but about my FrontPage web transfer connections. I
can't seem to make the new ws_ftp upload wizard work. I know all the
information I need, my firewall is set for passive and that upload wizard
has full access to the internet.



Three hours is a long time to mess with something like that so I went to My
Network Places to create a shortcut for my website's URL. Took a couple of
minutes and it opened right up. I can walk right in, but I still have no way
to transfer my local files to there. (server does not have FrontPage
extensions).



After I restarted my computer, all of a sudden, I see in Windows Explorer
that Internet Explorer is now an ftp server. I haven't seen that in my five
years managing this web, so I don't know how it happened.



In the browser properties, the Target location is "c:\Program Files\Internet
Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE"



Start in: %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%

Is that correct?



In Help and Support I see how you can do anything, but I don't see how you
can remove a connection like that. I don't know if it happened with WS_FTP
or if it happened with the My Network Places connection.



I'm not going to cross-post, but if I should ask this somewhere else, please
tell me.

dsg

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

How is this related to FP, if you having a problem with ws_ftp, as FP would use IE's FTP connection,
not ws_ftp?

Try contacting the authors of ws_ftp or maybe the IE newsgroup.

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[DSG]

Thomas you must get tired of some of us. Actually, I did not know IE had an
FTP connection. I will look it up. I finally figured it out, but not before
I had made my computer the server. Well, I've learned a thing or two today.
Thanks. dsg
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