Hyperlinx w/o password or username

[rlarson]

Is there any way to give a client access to a folder on our FTP site without having a password or user name? The most ideal situation is to send them a hyper link and the hyper link takes them directly to the folder on our server. The documents are not very senistive materail...

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,

[boco]

You need to create an ftp account with the name anonymous. While doing that untick the ''Password'' checkbox, so the user needs no password. Define the resources to share (directories) and assign permissions, like you would with any other account.

Following that procedure, you can simply provide FTP links without any username and password. The majority of browsers and FTP clients will automatically use anonymous if no username is given.

[cooperspc]

something to keep in mind, there are LOTS of crawlers looking for anonymous logins
If you make it writable, I will take the bet you will find files in there, in about a week, that you don't want

So either make it read only, or if it is only a few files think about creating a folder listing on your http side, all http server can do a file listing also, but can only download 1 file at a time

3rd option I use this for the people who just don't understand FTP clients
give the operator a username and password, but put it in the link you give them
ftp://User:password@ftpservername.com (better than anonymous) because you can change the password if person gets out of hand uploading or downloading
you can use this in Windows Explorer NOT Internet Explorer and upload and download "like" it was a drive on your computer

4th option
depending on what files you are sharing you can use http code like http://www.pancake.org/zina this is setup for audio and video but i assure you i use it for PDF, DOC and just about everything, just need to setup the file extension in the settings