Windows cannot access this folder. (ftp:// Problem)

[Matthew Mucklo]

Posting this message so others may benefit (and hope someone at
Microsoft sees this and fixes the bug/feature), some/most of you may
already know the solution, but it wasn't at the top of Google Groups.

Just enabled an FTP server on SBS 2000, however when we went to it in
internet explorer, we got the following problem:

"Windows cannot access this folder. Make sure you typed
the file name correctly and that you have permission to
access to the folder."

It worked fine accessing it on a Mac, or through command-line ftp.

It turns out that we had an '@' in the password. For some reason IE
can't take an '@' in an FTP password. IE 5.2 on a Macintosh works,
but IE 6.0 on a PC get's screwed up. Getting rid of the '@' fixed the
problem,

--Matt

 

[Robert Aldwinckle]

For some reason IE can't take an '@' in an FTP password.

Here's a repost of a reply I have given to a similar question

<repost>

Are you using File, Login As... to send this?

<title>KB135975 - How to Enter FTP Site Password in Internet Explorer</title>

</repost>

Otherwise, e.g., if you are trying to send your password with the URL,
you can get the implication from the article that the at-sign has
to be encoded, in that case as %40

Use RFC1738 as a search term for more details.


HTH

Robert Aldwinckle