FTP Error 550 When Using Web Folder View and FTP Home Folders

ID: Q244778

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Internet Explorer version 5 for Windows 98
Microsoft Internet Explorer version 5 for Windows 95
Microsoft Internet Explorer version 5 for Windows NT 4.0

SYMPTOMS

When you open an FTP site by using the following syntax with Internet Explorer with Web-based FTP enabled, you receive FTP error 550 if you have a home folder specified:

ftp://User:Password@ftp.address.com/User

The site opens, but if you attempt to change to any subfolder within the your defined folder, the following error message occurs:

Extended Server Error Message :
200 Type set to I.
200 PORT command successful.
550 /User/User/SubFolder/: No such file or directory.

RESOLUTION

To resolve this issue, upgrade to Internet Explorer 5.01. You can obtain Internet Explorer 5.01 from the following Microsoft Web site:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.

This problem was corrected in Internet Explorer 5.01.

Additional query words:

Keywords : kbenv kberrmsg msiew95 msient msiew98
Version : WINDOWS:5
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbprb