Tuesday, March 25, 2008

You cannot log on to an FTP site

You cannot log on to an FTP site or you are redirected to the root folder of the FTP site in Internet Explorer 7

from my email:-

I found the solution in IE7. When using IE7, instead of IE6, you cannot
logon to ftp sites. Instead you have to go through Windows Explorer to do
what we use to do in IE6. There was a design change in IE from 6 to 7 that
makes this necessary. You can see the explanation at:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941896/en-us

- Ron

P.S. - You also need to make sure that the domain is
users.rootsweb.ancestry.com (with the "ancestry" included). The old URL's
won't work.

and or

I found the solution in IE7. When using IE7, instead of IE6, you cannot
logon to ftp sites. Instead you have to go through Windows Explorer to do
what we use to do in IE6. There was a design change in IE from 6 to 7 that
makes this necessary. You can see the explanation at:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941896/en-us

- Ron

P.S. - You also need to make sure that the domain is
users.rootsweb.ancestry.com (with the "ancestry" included). The old URL's
won't work.