Re: FTP

Thank you very much for your help, explaination and your time. it worked
with 
"anonymous" and email address. but i think now I need to figure out how to

download/upload a file .

Thank you again.


"Fred McKenzie" wrote:

> In article <49F5F16D-11BE-46F0-A902-FB81B855EF16@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>  Freedominizer <Freedominizer@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
> > can anyone tell me why that we can visit some FTP sites using our
browsers 
> > with no problems, but if we want to visit the same FTP site using
command 
> > prompt it requests a username and password...
> 
> 
> Before there were web browsers like NCSA Mosaic, FTP was the best way to

> "surf the net"!  A popular Macintosh FTP program was Fetch from 
> Dartmouth College.
> 
> Many sites allowed anonymous access, but usually required a username of 
> "anonymous" and your eMail address as the password.  Some FTP programs 
> came with a default username of anonymous.  You supplied your eMail 
> address for the password when entering the program preferences.
> 
> My guess is that your current web browser may be set up with at least a 
> username of anonymous.  It may also have your eMail address if you use 
> the browser for mail.  You might try anonymous for a username when using

> the FTP command prompt, and see what happens.
> 
> Fred
>