Can you do a IE link in the bar to FTP...

General Computing Microsoft Windows
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Want to do a link that will work in IE

I know you can do


ftp://ftp.fred.com

But can you set it up so it enters the username and pass too from the link…

sort of


ftp://ftp.fred.com:username-paul:pass-chicken
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http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q135975

3

Thanks for the link :slight_smile:

Can’t get it to work for me as i wanted it too though, never mind :cool:

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Say you have a site at www.mysite.com and you have ftp set up with the username user and the password pass.

you wud enter ftp://user:pass@mysite.com/ and if all goes well it should dump you into either the home directory of the user or the root directory.