Ok, I appologize in advance for this. I know the answer must be totally obvious but I just cannot find it and I'm hoping someone will take pity.

dot5 hosting sets your username as name@domain.com

I prefer to use IE as my ftp client. (Yes, I understand all of the security concerns.) I have changed computers and cannot remember how I had this set up.

For my non dot5 domains I use ftp://username:password@domain.com

But, that will not work for the dot5 one because of the extra @ required, I suspect.

Can anyone help me with the IE command line option to get an explorer view of my dot5 website without having to use an ftp client of some sort??

Thanks, Susan

if you go to ftp://domain.com does it not ask you for your username and password?

I strongly recommend that you don't use IE. Not because of any security problems it has (if you care about security, you don't use FTP :stickout), but because it's slow, has a habit of mangling files, often has trouble displaying certain file names, often has trouble browsing some directory structures, etc. If you want a good free FTP client check out SmartFTP (http://www.smartftp.com/) sometime.

Anyways, back on topic...what Haze said should work. If it doesn't, URL-encoding the @ in your username *might* work (don't quote me on that, it's just a random guess). Also, on some systems (Ensim, for example), you can substitute a pound sign (#) for the at sign.

The # trick was just the hint I needed!! Thanks!!

And thanks, too, for the good info about ie vs. smart ftp. I actually have smartftp but have been using ie for the quick and dirty drag and drop.

Dot5 has some strange configurations that add to the mix and necessitate my using all my tricks.

But I sure do appreciate the information!

Or you can get the free, learning edition of ws_ftp.

http://www.lightningservers.net/tools/wsftple.exe

the ws.ftp is a handy little one
the light version, the free one

You shoud try LeechFTP - totally free and great for broadband users. Really lightweight and quick!

Search for it on Google.

she may not be a broadband user !

She might not, but I am :)
Thanks for the link Jon!

Fair comment.. although it can be used by 56k users if you reduce the thread count. I just found it simple compared to the others I'd tried before.

Glad someone else found it useful :)

Hi there,

Post number 1 - been lurking for a while but now it's time for my grand debut. ;-)

So what do you believe is the best FTP client around? And why, of course?

I've been using WS FTP for a while and am quite happy with it, especially with the built-in transfer manager. But every now and then when my Internet connection drops (lousy dial-up) WS FTP crashes and loses all information in the transfer manager, so I don't know anymore what I transferred already - and we're talking about 100's of megs from time to time. :bawling:

Bye, \ Thomas

See my above post :)

Jon's pointer to Leech is probably one of the best tips I've had recently. It is, apparently, no longer being updated or maintained, but it is fine just like it is.

I'll never use IE to FTP again.

http://stud.fh-heilbronn.de/~jdebis/leechftp/downloads.html

Sounds good, I've downloaded it and will give it a try... ;)

Any other pointers to FTP programs that can track transfer queues of thousands of files well? RobotFtp any good?

A free FTP program I was turned on to recently at another forum is FileZilla.

It's as easy to use as CuteFTP (adware), which I used previously.

Works with broadband as well as dialup.