Re: [squid-users] FTP error with squid

Hi,

On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 10:25 +0530, Indunil Jayasooriya wrote:
> Hi,
>
> when I try to browse a ftp site with squid, I get bellow error. How
> can I solve this?
>
> This is the way I tired.
>
> ftp://192.168.102.2
>
> The requested URL could not be retrieved ________________________________
>
>
> An FTP authentication failure occurred while trying to retrieve the
> URL: ftp://192.168.102.2
>
> Squid sent the following FTP command:
> PASS <yourpassword>
> and then received this reply
> User anonymous cannot log in.
>
>
>
> Your cache administrator is root.
> ________________________________
> Generated Mon, 18 Jun 2007 04:57:21 GMT by box.domain.com (squid/2.5.STABLE6)

If you don't have an account there, you can't browse as anonymous access
is denied.

If you do have an account you can pass that information through to the
server using the standard format:

ftp://[username[:password]@]192.168.102.2

The "[]" pairs denote optional items.

Colin

>

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Colin Campbell
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