Re: Ask EU - any ftp experts out there?

While spitting out some home-made cheese, I heard Alan Fitch
<apfitch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> say

Tony Gardner wrote:
While spitting out some home-made cheese, I heard Penny
<spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> say

On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 07:46:33 GMT, invalid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Tony Gardner)
scrawled in the dust...

I'm having problems trying to update my website, to put some BBQ pics
on it.

I'm (trying to) use an ftp client (the same one I've used successfully
in the past) to ftp some html files onto the web server. I connect
successfully (I get an acknowledgement from the web server telling me
how much space I've used and how much remains), but nothing else. All
attempts to read the files and folders in my partition on the web
server meet with total lack of response from the server. Attempts to
upload meet with the same lack of response.
Is this freeserve webspace?
When did you last successfully upload to it?

I ask because I had a similar problem and eventually managed to get an
email response from freeserve with some details I needed to change.
Unfortunately that was back in February before my PC problems and I still
haven't managed to access my old HDD (which is now in a USB enclosure but
won't talk to my new machine).

I contacted the right bit of Don't-wanna-free-Orange by contacting the
wrong bit IYSWIM and they gave me the correct email address. It is
important to mention this is old freeserve webspace.
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I last updated about two years ago, when I put up the 2005 BBQ pics -
I didn't publish any pics in 2006.

So, yes, it is old freeserve webspace and yes, it is a long time since
I last accessed it.

It sounds as if you've identified the problem, but can't get at the
solution because of your HDD problems.

I wonder if there are any other rats out there who know how the
mechanism for accessing "old" freeserve webspace has changed in the
last couple of years?

I've been trying the "support" lines from Orange, and getting nowhere.
I might do better if I spent a year or two in Mumbai to brush up my
English language skills. I strongly suspect that if I could
understand them, I'd realise that they are saying "That's a poser and
no mistake. Sorry, mate, no idea."

Does this article help? (from the orange website)

what settings do I need to upload using an FTP program?
Article ID: kb1041

Frayed knot, Alan, but thanks anyway.

That article refers to webspace allocated to customers who have signed
up with Orange. I became an Orange customer by the
sign-up-with-freeserve-then-get-taken-over-by
wannado-then-get-taken-over-by-Orange route.

I suspect that this is the root cause of the problem. I'm using (or
trying to use) a "legacy" webserver that was inherited by Orange when
they took over Wannado. I was able to access it successfully before
the takeover; I can't access it now. Go figure, as they say.

But thanks for trying to help.
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My e-mail address is invalid. Use "tony" "at" "gardner214" dot "freeserve" dot "co" dot "uk"
.

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