How can I use Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) to pass a username and password to an FTP site?

A. If you access an FTP site that doesn't allow anonymous access, you must provide a username and password. To access an FTP site anonymously from IE, use the syntax

ftp://ftp..com

To pass a username and password, the syntax is

ftp://:@

For example, to access the Internet Software Consortium (ISC) ftp site, you might type

ftp://john:[email protected]@ftp.isc.org

where "john" is the username and "[email protected]" is the password.

Similarly, to pass just a username, you can use the syntax

ftp://@