Upload to IIS 6 FTP Folder from Mac OS X

[Boris Nikolaevich]

Because I am taking a weekend class at the local community college, I
thought I would be clever and use my existing FTP server to transfer my
class files instead of lugging around a heavy Zip disk (grin!) I found
"Connect To Server" in the menu bar on the Mac, and had no problem
connecting to my FTP server and home folder. However, although I could read
and download the files I could not write to the folder.

I do have write permissions, and from my office or home (where I am using
Windows XP) I can connect and upload files ad nauseum. I admit that I don't
know much about using a Mac, but does anyone have an idea what I need to do
to be able to write to my FTP folder from that computer? (Maybe "Connect to
Server" is the wrong way to go about it?)

[Lance]

Boris Nikolaevich, in all wisdom, typed:

I don't know too much about Macs, but I have a similar problem with Mac
users on my IIS6 FTP server. One of my users who teaches a beginners Mac
class, wrote the following for OSX and OS9.

HTH,
Lance
*****

"In OS X Jaguar go to the menu bar, Go-->Connect to Server and in the space
at the bottom where it says Address type in the address
ftp://ftp.server.name and click the Connect Button. A dialog box will ask
for your User name and password, enter them and click the OK button. A new
disk will appear on your desktop, open it and you will see the files and
folders. Open folders to see what's in 'em. Drag and drop any file you want
to your desktop. Depending on the speed of your Internet connection and the
size of the file it will take a bit of time to copy (you'll see the copy
progress bar). If you are using Safari, type the URL in the address bar, and
then the same sequence of events happens as above. I could not figure out
any way to get Internet Explorer on the Mac to do more than list files. Just
get an "access denied" error. Also, I couldn't find any way to set passive
mode. IE 5.2 is the only version available for the Mac."

For OS9, she says:

"Evidently I hadn't tried every possible address in Fetch. I actually booted
up in OS 9 (first time in ages), went to the site with IE5, could discover
no way to get the files, launched Fetch, got the error message when I typed
in the address, and in despair copied and pasted the address from the IE
window into Fetch. To my amazement the address appeared in what seemed to me
to be the wrong form, but Fetch went there and I downloaded a file."