They could be keying their own address in the IE address bar instead of clicking on your link
ftp://www.company.com/temp
Or coming in from a shortcut on their desktop ...
iexplore.exe 
ftp://www.radile.com/temp
----- Original Message ----
From: "rob@xxxxxxxxx" <rob@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 2:32:34 PM
Subject: FTP vs MSIE
When I send someone a link to our ftp site in an email it's something like
ftp://ftp.somewhere.com/
You click on it and it fires up their browser as a ftp tool. 
Scenario:  I have multiple vendors using the same user id and password.  I 
use QIBM_QTMF_SVR_LOGON exit point to change their funny user id and 
password to an i user id.  They all use the same i user id.  That i user 
id has a default directory supplied.  When they hit the 
QIBM_QTMF_SERVER_REQ exit point some of them are coming up with / as their 
current directory and some are coming in with the current directory 
specified in their user profile.
Might there be a local browser setting that controls this?
Rob Berendt
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