hey guys, sorry for just quoting my problem from this site: http://www.nabble.com/FTP-access-configuration-td15613479.html --------snip Dear All, I have configured the Squid (with authentication ) and it is working fine for surfing internet. But whenever client tried to access our ftp site (which is also password protected), instead of asking for password it automatic tried the password and give this error ERROR The requested URL could not be retrieved An FTP authentication failure occurred while trying to retrieve the URL: ftp://72.18.130.105/ Squid sent the following FTP command: PASS <yourpassword> and then received this reply User anonymous cannot log in. Your cache administrator is arun@.... ------------- i have excatly the same problem (squid with proxy_auth). is there any way to enforce ie7 and mozilla (or workaround) to prompt for login cred. using ftp://ftp.mysite.com method? thank you. regrads --uxmax