Topic: SME and Mozilla Composer

[Anonymous]

Does anyone here have any experience with Mozilla Composer and its publish feature?
We are using version 6.0 of SME with Mozilla 1.6 on Windows and one Linux workstation.
We need to be able to use the publish function in Mozilla to allow 3 users to maintain a site.
I have created a test ibay and associated a group to the ibay for publishing purposes.
I can't seem to find the right combo of settings that will allow Composer to publish to the ibay site.
Here are the settings for the ibay

Information bay name
testedit

Description
test for edit

Group
test editing (testeditor)

User access via file sharing or user ftp
Write = group, Read = everyone

Public access via web or anonymous ftp
Local Network (no password required)

Execution of dynamic content (CGI, PHP, SSI)
disabled

The internal address of the server is 192.168.1.1. I have tried every combination of settings in Composer that I can think of with no success. Setting are currently as follows;

Site Name: testedit
Publishing address: ftp://192.168.1.1/testedit
HTTP address of your homepage: http://192.168.1.1/testedit
Username: testedit (also tried group usernames)
Password: (i used both group member password and the ibay passwords)

Mozilla Composer looks to be a very nice possible solution to allowing multiple users to manage a website from a single application much like frontpage works. Unfortunately I have yet to figure out how to make it work with SME 6.0.
Anyone have any good ideas out there?

[MSmith]

What are those settings now?

[jmartin]

Check FTP access settings in server-manager under security/remote access.

If it's set to no access it overrides your ibay settings.

You might also consider using some kind of CMS if your users only need to update certain text on the website.  With a CMS in place they would only be able to update areas of the website they have permissions for.

Hope that helps.

[Anonymous]

ftp is enabled in remote access for local network. I think the issue is how Composer does it ftp authentication. I was hoping someone else here had experimented with it. It looks like a nice editing solution if the publish feature was able to work with SME.

[Boris]

Who not edit files directly via samba share?
\\yourserver\testedit\html\

[jmartin]

What about http://www.nvu.com still has some bugs but the ftp functions might be better.

[Ruwan]

Check to see if Pasv mode is/is not enabled on your client.. someone else also had this problem with another client.

HTH,

-R

[Anonymous]

Check to see if Pasv mode is/is not enabled on your client.. someone else also had this problem with another client.

HTH,

-R

Not sure I understand what you mean here. How do I check this on the client? Is it supposed to be "is" or "is not"?