Re: Ownership of FTPd file(s)

["Jim Franz" <franz400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

(i've not tested this...) but in this article it talks about browser (IE) 
making a connect to ftp thru http may be proxied - need to chg browser 
settings to truly talk to the ftp server(see middle of the article).
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb794745.aspx
jim franz

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott Klement" <web400@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries" <web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, November 15, 2010 8:56 PM
Subject: Re: [WEB400] Ownership of FTPd file(s)


> I believe the IBM i FTP server will carry over permissions from the
> directory that you FTP into.
>
> Now, I'm not exactly sure what you are doing.  Are you FTPing a save
> file?  A ZIP file?  a TAR file?  Or are you sending each file, one-by-one?
>
> Assuming you're sending them one-by-one, FTP should give permissions
> based on the directory.  So if /www/ABC/htdocs is owned by qtmhhttp,
> and qtmhhttp has *RWX authority to that directory, then the files you
> put into it should also be owned by qtmhhttp and have *RWX authority.
>
> Is that not what you've found?
>
>
> On 11/15/2010 7:02 PM, Booth Martin wrote:
> > I can FTP a web site (a group of files and directories) to 
> > /www/ABC/htdocs.
> >
> > It works pretty easily.  However, in order to navigate amongst the
> > folders with a browser without getting 403 Forbidden messages I have to
> > sign in with wrklnk and navigate to the folder and add or modify the
> > authorities on all of the objects for QTMHHTTP  to *RX.
> >
> > It occurs to me that this is probably not how it was all designed.
> > However I have not found any other way to do this.
> >
> > Is there a way in the FTP process to fix this?
> >
> > or, or, or?
> >
> > Thanks
>
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