how creat an FTP download link to my...

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Hi there... This is not a question about how to upload via FTP (that works fine) but to find how using the "Link Properties" option in VSD do i get a site visitor to land on my FTP server in order for them to download a file. If I try and use the URL option it replaces my ftp://servername with http://.

I have a button on my site called "Client Login" how do I achieve this...???

Many thanks
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The Link dialog was not setup for that type of link. What you would have to do instead is use the HTML tool and add markup there for this type of link. You would use something like this:

<a href="ftp://www.mydomain.com">click here</a>

You can also add a username and password to the link as well. You can find instructions here at http://www.ehow.com/how_7317982_make-ft … sword.html
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If you have access to the cpanel on your server you should be able to set up a custom ftp login for what ever folder you like then put a link to it on your page. Then send the user the login credentials.:)
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