Subject: Re: ftpd - allow upload entire directory ?
To: Mike Cheponis <mac@Wireless.Com>
From: Samuel.Hornus <Samuel.Hornus@crans.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 06/12/2001 21:16:37
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Mike Cheponis wrote:

> >From windows, I find it most convenient to use the IE browser's interface
> for ftp.  Say your destination machine is "foo.com" your user is "joe" and
> pw is "fish" and you want to get/put files from the subdir "bar/" in
> your home directory.   In the IE "Address" box, you'd type:
>
> ftp://joe:fish@foo.com/bar
>
> And then you can just drag and drop files onto IE, which will perform the
> underlying FTP for you.  Once nice thing about this is that you -can-
> have subdirectories transferred this way.  In fact, this is how I back up
> my windows machine to my NetBSD machines.

Well, this is *the* way you describe that does not work :
trying to upload directories from a windows machine to my netbsd ftpd
does not work (single files works). So I was wondering if it is a ftpd
feature to activate or a bug in the windows client...

-- 
Samuel.