Comments on: FTP in IE 7 revisited http://blog.paulpehrson.com/2006/11/20/ftp-in-ie-7-revisited/ Paul Pehrson's technical writing blog Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:43:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Jennifer http://blog.paulpehrson.com/2006/11/20/ftp-in-ie-7-revisited/#comment-63343 Jennifer Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:55:48 +0000 http://blog.paulpehrson.com/2006/11/20/ftp-in-ie-7-revisited/#comment-63343 I'm jumping in late, too... here is my challenge... I'm trying to put together a spreadsheet with links to photographs on my FTP site. The address of one photo, for example, is: ftp://dealer:wooden@woodenmallet.com/AC/AC12-1-lo.tif/ When I copy and past this address into Windows Explorer, it automatically downloads the photo - SO SLICK!!! - which is exactly what I want to happen... but, when I try to select the link from the Excel spreadsheet, it gives me an error. Any suggestions?<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('63343','Jennifer'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('63343','Jennifer','I\'m jumping in late, too... here is my challenge... I\'m trying to put together a spreadsheet with links to photographs on my FTP site. The address of one photo, for example, is: ftp:\/\/dealer:wooden@woodenmallet.com\/AC\/AC12-1-lo.tif\/\r\n\r\nWhen I copy and past this address into Windows Explorer, it automatically downloads the photo - SO SLICK!!! - which is exactly what I want to happen... but, when I try to select the link from the Excel spreadsheet, it gives me an error.\r\n\r\nAny suggestions?'); return false;">Quote</a></div> I’m jumping in late, too… here is my challenge… I’m trying to put together a spreadsheet with links to photographs on my FTP site. The address of one photo, for example, is: ftp://dealer:wooden@woodenmallet.com/AC/AC12-1-lo.tif/

When I copy and past this address into Windows Explorer, it automatically downloads the photo - SO SLICK!!! - which is exactly what I want to happen… but, when I try to select the link from the Excel spreadsheet, it gives me an error.

Any suggestions?

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]]> By: Gordon http://blog.paulpehrson.com/2006/11/20/ftp-in-ie-7-revisited/#comment-62753 Gordon Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:56:21 +0000 http://blog.paulpehrson.com/2006/11/20/ftp-in-ie-7-revisited/#comment-62753 <a href='#comment-22632' rel="nofollow">@David</a> - David you are the man! Great information! Thanks a ton!<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('62753','Gordon'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('62753','Gordon','<a href=\'#comment-22632\' rel=\"nofollow\">@David<\/a> - David you are the man! Great information! Thanks a ton!'); return false;">Quote</a></div> @David - David you are the man! Great information! Thanks a ton!
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]]> By: Angie http://blog.paulpehrson.com/2006/11/20/ftp-in-ie-7-revisited/#comment-61866 Angie Tue, 23 Sep 2008 10:50:17 +0000 http://blog.paulpehrson.com/2006/11/20/ftp-in-ie-7-revisited/#comment-61866 re: IE7 not opening in folder view... also joining the party late ;) i will have to try the registry edit (lord knows i love the regedit fix for that stupid runonce headache)... but for folks that may not be comfortable with poking around the registry you can also use Start --> Run... then type in your ftp site [in our case just 'ftp.domain.com' window pops up for credentials and opens in folder/windows explorer view. also, IIRC once you connect to the ftp site it shows up in "My Network Places" and launches in folder view as well.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('61866','Angie'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('61866','Angie','re: IE7 not opening in folder view... also joining the party late ;)\r\n\r\ni will have to try the registry edit (lord knows i love the regedit fix for that stupid runonce headache)... but for folks that may not be comfortable with poking around the registry\r\n\r\nyou can also use Start --&gt; Run... then type in your ftp site &#91;in our case just \'ftp.domain.com\' \r\n\r\nwindow pops up for credentials and opens in folder\/windows explorer view.\r\n\r\nalso, IIRC once you connect to the ftp site it shows up in \"My Network Places\" and launches in folder view as well.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> re: IE7 not opening in folder view… also joining the party late ;)

i will have to try the registry edit (lord knows i love the regedit fix for that stupid runonce headache)… but for folks that may not be comfortable with poking around the registry

you can also use Start –> Run… then type in your ftp site [in our case just ‘ftp.domain.com’

window pops up for credentials and opens in folder/windows explorer view.

also, IIRC once you connect to the ftp site it shows up in “My Network Places” and launches in folder view as well.

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]]> By: Rhys http://blog.paulpehrson.com/2006/11/20/ftp-in-ie-7-revisited/#comment-61094 Rhys Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:55:54 +0000 http://blog.paulpehrson.com/2006/11/20/ftp-in-ie-7-revisited/#comment-61094 Hi all, I realise that this post is pretty old but thought I could help and was hoping that maybe someone could help me too. To get IE7 to open in folder view everytime make the following registry change: Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_INTERNET_SHELL_FOLDERS. Modify the iexplore.exe DWORD value to 1 (default is 0). Restart IE (if it was open in the first place) and then navigate to the FTP site. NB: you need to make sure the Enable FTP folder view option is selected in IE's advanced settings. OK then. My problem. I work with an FTP site that has Word\Excel docs in it. When I open one of the documents it opens in read only mode and as such you cant directly modify and then save the file you've been working on. Trying to just generates the good old "The file is read only" error. Strangely you can save the file to another location- for example the desktop, then cut and paste the doc over the original in the FTP site! The NTFS permissions on the site give full control to the necessary users. The FTP site itself is done in IIS and gives write access. I'm 100% stumped and have been looking at this for what seesm like forever. Trawled the web and can't find anyone that has fixed this issue (although have found people with the same problem). Sadly this happens with IE 7 and 6. If there's anyone out there with thhis problem or with advice (I'll try anything at this point) please let me know.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('61094','Rhys'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('61094','Rhys','Hi all,\r\n\r\nI realise that this post is pretty old but thought I could help and was hoping that maybe someone could help me too. To get IE7 to open in folder view everytime make the following registry change: Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_INTERNET_SHELL_FOLDERS. Modify the iexplore.exe DWORD value to 1 (default is 0). Restart IE (if it was open in the first place) and then navigate to the FTP site. NB: you need to make sure the Enable FTP folder view option is selected in IE\'s advanced settings.\r\n\r\nOK then. My problem. I work with an FTP site that has Word\Excel docs in it. When I open one of the documents it opens in read only mode and as such you cant directly modify and then save the file you\'ve been working on. Trying to just generates the good old \"The file is read only\" error. Strangely you can save the file to another location- for example the desktop, then cut and paste the doc over the original in the FTP site! The NTFS permissions on the site give full control to the necessary users. The FTP site itself is done in IIS and gives write access. I\'m 100% stumped and have been looking at this for what seesm like forever. Trawled the web and can\'t find anyone that has fixed this issue (although have found people with the same problem). Sadly this happens with IE 7 and 6.\r\n\r\nIf there\'s anyone out there with thhis problem or with advice (I\'ll try anything at this point) please let me know.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Hi all,

I realise that this post is pretty old but thought I could help and was hoping that maybe someone could help me too. To get IE7 to open in folder view everytime make the following registry change: Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_INTERNET_SHELL_FOLDERS. Modify the iexplore.exe DWORD value to 1 (default is 0). Restart IE (if it was open in the first place) and then navigate to the FTP site. NB: you need to make sure the Enable FTP folder view option is selected in IE’s advanced settings.

OK then. My problem. I work with an FTP site that has Word\Excel docs in it. When I open one of the documents it opens in read only mode and as such you cant directly modify and then save the file you’ve been working on. Trying to just generates the good old “The file is read only” error. Strangely you can save the file to another location- for example the desktop, then cut and paste the doc over the original in the FTP site! The NTFS permissions on the site give full control to the necessary users. The FTP site itself is done in IIS and gives write access. I’m 100% stumped and have been looking at this for what seesm like forever. Trawled the web and can’t find anyone that has fixed this issue (although have found people with the same problem). Sadly this happens with IE 7 and 6.

If there’s anyone out there with thhis problem or with advice (I’ll try anything at this point) please let me know.

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]]> By: sabrina http://blog.paulpehrson.com/2006/11/20/ftp-in-ie-7-revisited/#comment-59851 sabrina Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:42:44 +0000 http://blog.paulpehrson.com/2006/11/20/ftp-in-ie-7-revisited/#comment-59851 Thanks for the information. I follow the procedure but get the error immediately after clicking open ftp site in windows explorer. ( I am using Vista) windows cannot access this folder. make sure you typed the file name correctly and that you have permission to access the folder. details: the ftp session was terminated. any idea?<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('59851','sabrina'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('59851','sabrina','Thanks for the information. \r\nI follow the procedure but get the error immediately after clicking open ftp site in windows explorer. ( I am using Vista)\r\nwindows cannot access this folder. make sure you typed the file name correctly and that you have permission to access the folder. details: the ftp session was terminated.\r\nany idea?'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Thanks for the information.
I follow the procedure but get the error immediately after clicking open ftp site in windows explorer. ( I am using Vista)
windows cannot access this folder. make sure you typed the file name correctly and that you have permission to access the folder. details: the ftp session was terminated.
any idea?
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]]> By: Nate http://blog.paulpehrson.com/2006/11/20/ftp-in-ie-7-revisited/#comment-59799 Nate Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:02:09 +0000 http://blog.paulpehrson.com/2006/11/20/ftp-in-ie-7-revisited/#comment-59799 A warning re: FTP access via IE7. Clearing your browsing history does not clear FTP session information; any FTP locations visited recently will open without any username/password prompting once you visit them once, even if the browsing history, passwords, cache, etc is cleared.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('59799','Nate'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('59799','Nate','A warning re: FTP access via IE7. Clearing your browsing history does not clear FTP session information; any FTP locations visited recently will open without any username\/password prompting once you visit them once, even if the browsing history, passwords, cache, etc is cleared.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> A warning re: FTP access via IE7. Clearing your browsing history does not clear FTP session information; any FTP locations visited recently will open without any username/password prompting once you visit them once, even if the browsing history, passwords, cache, etc is cleared.
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]]> By: Stephanie http://blog.paulpehrson.com/2006/11/20/ftp-in-ie-7-revisited/#comment-58224 Stephanie Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:45:24 +0000 http://blog.paulpehrson.com/2006/11/20/ftp-in-ie-7-revisited/#comment-58224 Do you have a suggestion for a username like domain/username:password@ftpsite? It seems the / is causing me fits. Thanks!!!<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('58224','Stephanie'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('58224','Stephanie','Do you have a suggestion for a username like domain\/username:password@ftpsite? It seems the \/ is causing me fits. Thanks!!!'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Do you have a suggestion for a username like domain/username:password@ftpsite? It seems the / is causing me fits. Thanks!!!
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]]> By: Christian http://blog.paulpehrson.com/2006/11/20/ftp-in-ie-7-revisited/#comment-58216 Christian Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:59:19 +0000 http://blog.paulpehrson.com/2006/11/20/ftp-in-ie-7-revisited/#comment-58216 Steve is right; replace @ with %40, and note that this only works in Windows Explorer, not Internet Explorer.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('58216','Christian'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('58216','Christian','Steve is right; replace @ with %40, and note that this only works in Windows Explorer, not Internet Explorer.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Steve is right; replace @ with %40, and note that this only works in Windows Explorer, not Internet Explorer.
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]]> By: Jacques http://blog.paulpehrson.com/2006/11/20/ftp-in-ie-7-revisited/#comment-57360 Jacques Tue, 27 May 2008 19:45:02 +0000 http://blog.paulpehrson.com/2006/11/20/ftp-in-ie-7-revisited/#comment-57360 Hi Paul, Thanks for the flawless procedure. It helped for my users panic attack.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('57360','Jacques'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('57360','Jacques','Hi Paul,\r\n\r\nThanks for the flawless procedure. It helped for my users panic attack.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Hi Paul,

Thanks for the flawless procedure. It helped for my users panic attack.

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]]> By: Steve http://blog.paulpehrson.com/2006/11/20/ftp-in-ie-7-revisited/#comment-49566 Steve Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:18:05 +0000 http://blog.paulpehrson.com/2006/11/20/ftp-in-ie-7-revisited/#comment-49566 Michael, Have you tried replacing the @ in your username with %40? ftp://username%40somesite.com:ftppassword@hostsite.com Should work for you Steve<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('49566','Steve'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('49566','Steve','Michael,\r\n\r\nHave you tried replacing the @ in your username with %40?\r\n\r\nftp:\/\/username%40somesite.com:ftppassword@hostsite.com\r\n\r\nShould work for you\r\n\r\nSteve'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Michael,

Have you tried replacing the @ in your username with %40?

ftp://username%40somesite.com:ftppassword@hostsite.com

Should work for you

Steve

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