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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!jraynard.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: james@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FTP curios Date: 26 May 1996 19:28:09 -0000 Organization: A FreeBSD Box Lines: 27 Message-ID: <4oabc9$dn@jraynard.demon.co.uk> References: <4o42g4$ei1@ns2.brandcomms.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: jraynard.demon.co.uk In article <4o42g4$ei1@ns2.brandcomms.com>, Craig Stratton <craigs@brandcomms.com> wrote: >I have recently installed wu-ftpd and have strange anomaly that >paerhaps someone could explain. >I have set up users,permissions,directories etc ok. >If i ftp from the same machine and login as one of the real >users, i can see no files in the directory. >If i ftp from another bsd server, the same problem. If you FTP in as a user, you will arrive in that user's directory. If there aren't any files there, then you won't see any! >But if i ftp from a dos pc using various ftp clients, i can see >the files ok. If you FTP in as an "anonymous" user, you'll end up in the anon-ftp directory (or whatever you called it). >Any thoughts on this anyone ? Try FTP'ing from a BSD machine as the user 'anonymous' (or, if you can't spell anonymous, 'ftp' 8-) -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland jraynard@dial.pipex.com james@jraynard.demon.co.uk