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Help with FTP

Feb 28, 2007 8:10AM PST

My professor and I are at our wits end. Perhaps you can help. I am taking a basic html class. We have two sets of files we have to upload using the colleges ftp server.

I cannot gain access to the server. I keep getting the error page that states this page cannot be displayed. She logged in from her computer and got access right away. I keep getting the error page.

The only setting that was suggestion was to uncheck Use passive FTP on the Tools, Advanced in Internet Options.

Her and I both are using IE6.

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Two Things...
Feb 28, 2007 8:48AM PST

1) When you get the error page, can you right-click on that page (assuming it's accessing ftp.domain.com etc) and select "login as" and then login to upload?

2) Have you tried using a FTP client to upload those files?

Are both computers in school? Outside of school? It may just be a school security setting...

Let us know!

~Sovereign

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FTP update
Feb 28, 2007 9:02AM PST

Ok...let me try the right click.

I did just try using a FTP client that I found for free. But it keeps telling me their are now files in that folder. When I know there are.

My two computers are at home and she is at school.

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Update
Feb 28, 2007 9:07AM PST

Right click on error page does not show "login".

If it's a security issue on my computer (because the professor can login under my student id, are there any settings that I can change?

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Login?
Mar 1, 2007 12:54PM PST

Do you get a login prompt? Maybe it only works from the intranet (inside the school)?

Send me a private msg with the URL where you are trying to upload to, and maybe I can tell what's missing from there.

~Sovereign

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FTP
Mar 2, 2007 2:14AM PST

I sent you a email this morning...thanks so much.

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some servers...
Mar 19, 2007 7:07AM PDT

like at my school require the access to be trough safe ftp otherwise the server wont let you in....try using ws-ftp.