----- Original Message ----- From: "James Pole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Drew Tomlinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 12:39 AM
> On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 15:27, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > > I was attempting to allow a user to get some files via ftp from my FreeBSD > > 4.7 box using the ftp client built into MS Internet Explorer 6 (IE). I > > created a guest account and set the shell to /sbin/nologin. That appears to > > work fine. Then I created a symlink to the directory that contains the > > files for the user but the symlink doesn't appear in the files list in IE. > > All of the .files that were created by the adduser script do show. My > > directory looks like this: > > Why not just use Apache and get the user to get the file via HTTP. MSIE > is a web browser and not a FTP client, after all... Your idea is good for a ongoing permanent solution. However my situation is more of a "one time" thing. As such, I just copied the files into the guest account and the user was able to get them. But I still wonder if there is a way... :) Thanks, Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
