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I was trying to set up anonymous FTP in cPanel.

 

I check the two checkboxes and hit the "Save Settings" button. It seems that everything is just fine but when I try to login as anonymous (user: anonymous ; pass: <just some email address>), I get:

 

530-Unable to set anonymous privileges.

530 Login incorrect.

 

So what's the problem here? I'm supposing the login is wrong but if it's not like I used it, then what?

 

Thanks in advance! :)

Edited by TCH-Raul
Posted (edited)

Using command line in Linux and SmartFTP in Windows but that was not the problem.

I was not using anonymous@****. I didn't know it had to be done this way. :unsure:

 

It works, now.

 

Thanks for the help :)

Edited by TCH-Raul
Posted

ALL ftp users, except the main account holder, must login using the name@domainname.com username. (Stumbled on that one myself.)

 

I wasn't sure if that went for anon, too, but it was worth a shot.

 

Glad it's ok now.

 

Lianna

  • 4 weeks later...
Posted

That's so ugly. Telling people to tack on the domain could be a bit of a hasle. Is there anyway this could be changed?

Posted

No, there's no way it can be changed. That's one of the side-effects of using shared hosting. With each account having their own public_ftp directory, the FTP server software needs to know which domain you're logging into.

  • 3 weeks later...
Posted

I don't see why shared hosting has anything to do with the logon.

Your domain name that you type in to get the your ftp site should tell the server what domain you are logging on to.

I just switched hosting companies and my last hosting service allowed the username anonymous without @domain.com.

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