FTP questions

[johnnybregar]

I have tried to get shared folders going via FTP by mapping an FTP site in
Vista and then starting a new notebook and browsing to that FTP folder. I
have been able to browse to the folder to select it, but as soon as I hit the
"Create" button to create the new notebook, One Note hangs. I have enabled
Firewall to let One Note through, I have put the username and password to my
FTP site in my mapped folder, so that's not an issue.

Anyone have any more tips/tricks I could try? It seems to me that one of
the biggest issues with Office docs is lack of a central point from which
documents can be shared inside and outside of work.

WebDAV might work, but it would cost me money and I don't want to spend the
money only to find out that it's broken as well...

Thoughts?

 

[Rainald Taesler]

johnnybregar shared these words of wisdom:

I have tried to get shared folders going via FTP by mapping an FTP
site in Vista and then starting a new notebook and browsing to that
FTP folder. I have been able to browse to the folder to select it,
but as soon as I hit the "Create" button to create the new
notebook, One Note hangs. I have enabled Firewall to let One Note
through, I have put the username and password to my FTP site in my
mapped folder, so that's not an issue.

ON normally works great with "shared" devices.
This does not include FTP-connections, however.

Anyone have any more tips/tricks I could try? It seems to me that
one of the biggest issues with Office docs is lack of a central
point from which documents can be shared inside and outside of work.

Not this, IMHO.
But "FTP" has its own special limitations.
And an FTP-connection is different from a network.

WebDAV might work, but it would cost me money and I don't want to
spend the money only to find out that it's broken as well...

WebDAV and ON do not really work, anyway.
AFAICS some of the specialsis are working on this.
But we have not yet heard of any really working recipes in so far.

It's sad.
But that what's reality at times [siiiiigh].

Rainald