Dear ALl, here below is the problem i had earlier and had posted my problem to the list. thnks and appreciate all ur sugesstions but i did manage to solve googling arround right below i hav the solution may help someone arround >> Dear All, >> >> i have the following centos FTP local FTP server having the following >> >> Centos 5 >> vsftpd-2.0.5-10.el5 >> >> its been running fine for abt 2 years or so >> >> Now with IE5 or IE6 when i say ftp://ip address of FTP server it asks me >> for the username and password and if its correct i directly go to the >> /var/ftp/pub directly which is perfect > > You should contact support for IE7 and ask them that. > > Another thing to try, something I always recommend for people > using web browsers to connect to ftp sites that are not anonymous, > is to ftp with this url: > > ftp://<username>:<password>@address/path/ > > Of course don't include the <>'s > > nate Solution In /etc/vsftpd.conf have the following chroot_list_enable=YES chroot_list_file=/etc/vsftpd/chroot_list create a file chroot_list and add the user who gonna ftp to the ftp server the users home directory is the ftp root directory Obviously the ftp user is a local user so it works perfect .. but i still wonder why IE6 was working fine thnks fabian > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.