Incorrect Usage of FTP Server Name When Traversing an FTP Directory Structure

• Microsoft Internet Explorer version 5 for Windows NT 4.0

SYMPTOMS

When you are using File Transfer Protocol (FTP) to connect to an FTP server (for example, connecting to ftp://username:password@FTPserver), you may notice that your user name is the FTP server name from the FTP Web page in Internet Explorer 5. When this occurs, you cannot gain access to any subfolder on the FTP server.

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.

To obtain Internet Explorer 5.01, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

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

Additional query words:

Keywords : kbenv msient
Version : WINDOWS:5
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbprb