RE: FN-FORUM strange ftp behaviour

date posted 15th June 2002 10:39

I completely agree Kathy. This sounds like it has absolutely nada to do
with XP and everything to do with file ownership. A client (who
co-incidentally was using OSX) had a similar problem a while back - the
solution was to telnet in switch to admin user and delete the file
manually,

Hutch
Who remembers who difficult it all was before DOS

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You don't say what message you got when you tried to delete the file.
Check your security settings and make sure you have applied at least sp1
. WinXP Home is a black art, but Pro is just 200 with a few bells and
whistles. I suspect it has nothing to do with FTP at all and plenty to
do with file ownership. The concept of permissions and ownership is much
the same as Unix or VMS. If it's Pro, an Administrator can take
ownership of the file and delete it. If it is on a remote share, you
must have sufficient permissions on the share as well as on the
file--it's usual to control access with file permissions and leave
shares open BTW. I have absolutely no interest in Home (or ME) so I
can't help there.

You don't even need an extra FTP program (check that the ones you are
using run on XP, if they were written for 95, they probably don't), you
can just use Explorer or type at the command line just like the good old
days. Transfer problems sound more like a crap connection than anything
else, but if you are using a personal firewall, including the XP one,
you might need to set passive mode for FTP (you _sometimes_ have to do
this with cable and ADSL modems also) The article on
support.microsoft.com about troubleshooting Internet connections in XP
is Q314095; the article on the XP firewall is Q320855.

Kathy
Who remembers how difficult it all was before Windows.