Works for me, I just tried it again.  I did nothing special; machine
is 1.5.1_BETA i386.

Try upgrading to IE 5.5 - that's what I'm using.

GL -Mike

p.s. you -did- enable ftpd in /etc/inetd.conf ?

On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Samuel.Hornus 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.