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Domain Users cannot FTP to a remote server using IE6

Network: MS W2K3 with a Domain.
Issue: Domain Users cannot access an external remote FTP site using IE6, but Domain Admins can successfully access the same external remote FTP site using IE6 on the same computer.

Any suggestions are appreciated.

Steve Knight

How do they access the internet, through ISA server perhaps? Does it work if you make the user a local admin (In which case this removes any option that it could be admin rights to the machine that are casuing it) Can they access any remote FTP servers? If you aren't using a proxy server does it work using commandline ftp.exe ?

If it is ISA server or equivalent as proxy server or firewall I imagine there are restrictions in there allowing domain users access to http/https and domain admins more access perhaps?

Steve

jdtech

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Hi dragon-it. Thanks for looking at this with me. There is no ISA server in use. Internet access is through A SonicWall firewall with equal access for all users. It still doesn't work (for any remote FTP site) with the Domain User a local Admin on the computer. I am not using a proxy server. Using the command line ftp.exe works for Domain Users, but for the user's comfort level, I need to use the browser and the familiar GUI display of folders to drsg or copy to/from.

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jdtech

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I don't know why IE was behaving this way, but when I uninstalled it and installed IE 7 beta it worked for all users.
Thanks for the help.

Steve Knight

Fair enough. Thanks for the points, at least you have a workaround now

Steve