Kiosk Mode

[renzo]

replies to the previous two posts

FileZilla does not look in %APPDATA%/FZ but in %APPDATA%/FileZilla

Also, it's spelled fzdefaults.xml, not fxdefaults.xml

1) yes. I abbreviated "FileZilla" as FZ.
2) TYPO.

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 Volume in drive C is XXXXXX_c
 Volume Serial Number is jjjjjj

 Directory of c:\Documents and Settings\my name\Application Data\FileZilla


03/08/2011  08:14 AM    <DIR>          .
03/08/2011  08:14 AM    <DIR>          ..
01/23/2011  10:13 PM               263 bookmarks.xml
03/07/2011  05:27 PM             7,976 filezilla.xml
01/23/2011  10:01 PM             4,562 filters.xml
03/08/2011  08:14 AM               812 FZ.log
03/07/2011  04:02 PM               112 fzdefaults.xml
03/08/2011  08:07 AM               832 layout.xml
03/08/2011  08:07 AM                74 queue.xml
03/07/2011  04:06 PM             1,211 recentservers.xml
03/08/2011  08:08 AM               847 sitemanager.xml
               9 File(s)         16,689 bytes
               2 Dir(s)  390,940,975,104 bytes free

The hyphens do not belong there.

hmm. dont know why they were in the post
here is text of the file shown above

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<FileZilla3>
    <Settings>
      <Setting name="Kiosk mode">1</Setting>
    </Settings>    
</FileZilla3>

No! The file is called fzdefaults.xml and must be in the program directory of FileZilla, that's the one where FileZilla.exe is.

oops. I misunderstood 2011-03-07 16:01 post. my bad.

yes. moving that xml file to the c:\program files\FileZilla FTP Client now forces the entry of the password each time and the program behaves in "kiosk mode" as described in other posts.

Next, I went back and changed the appdata filezilla.xml file to kiosk=0 (left the default in the program directory). Program still asks for password.

So it appears that either

FZ has a bug in which it picks up kiosk mode from the wrong place
(Program Files\fzdefault.xml)
or
The instructions for change to kiosk mode need to be fixed.

I appreciate the help. I really like the layout of FZ compared to other FTP programs. I only wish that FTP allowed transfer of the correct dates and times. There are several FTP progrmas out there that do a poor job of synchronizing directories as a result of this issue.


marc

[boco]

That's no bug. The fzdefaults.xml file is an override file, placed by an administrator. As such, it is meant to be in the program directory, where an ordinary user does not have write access. Furthermore, it is possible to change the location of the remaining settings directory using that file, so it can't be in that very settings directory, right? The possibility to have fzdefaults.xml settings in the ordinary settings file is relatively new, so only recent versions work in that respect. I tested with 3.4.0beta1, and it works. In fact, according to version history, FileZilla 3.4.0beta1 is the one and only version so far where kiosk mode runs from filezilla.xml!