In message <[email protected]>, [email protected] writes HI Les, Sounds like you need to check your settings in WS_FTP. You probably have a setting for "initial remote host directory" (under the startup tab). It's possible rootsweb have changed the location of you web-site to another disk or directory location - and so you're getting an error message. Once you are connected you should see your initial "remote" location on the "Remote System" field top right - which you then need to apply to your own "initial remote host directory" under the startup tab! John >Message: 4 >Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 00:26:55 -0500 >From: Lesley Shockey <[email protected]> >Subject: [ROOTSWEB-HELP] FTP - no connection to Rootsweb >To: [email protected] >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed > >The problem you are having with FTP - no connection to Rootsweb >sounds very similar to the problem that I am having with two of my >pages. However my WS_FTP does connect but I get a message in the >lower display that says "retrieval of directory listing failed" each >time I try connecting. The remote directory therefore remains >blank. This is happening on my Jackson County WVGenWeb page and also >my Shockey Family page. The same software is working fine with my >WVGenWeb state page access so I believe that the problem is somewhere >with the RootsWeb server. > >Les Shockey -- John Gibson Chalmers - [email protected] Homepages ... http://www.dgnscrn.demon.co.uk/ and ... http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~chalmers/

Hi John, If Rootsweb Helpdesk will not answer, how will one find out if they changed the location of the remote site. All the years that Dr. B maintained it, if he was making a change, he made people aware of it in advance and then with a follow up once the change was made. My sites were among the very first that Rootsweb started hosting and the only changes in the settings of my FTP program were the ones that he made me aware of. My password is being accepted for the county account but I then get: "425 Can't build a data connection: Connection refused ! retrieval of directory listing failed (0)" Any suggestions? Les At 10:45 PM 12/4/2006, you wrote: >In message <[email protected]>, >[email protected] writes > > >HI Les, > >Sounds like you need to check your settings in WS_FTP. You probably >have a setting for "initial remote host directory" (under the startup >tab). It's possible rootsweb have changed the location of you web-site >to another disk or directory location - and so you're getting an error >message. Once you are connected you should see your initial "remote" >location on the "Remote System" field top right - which you then need to >apply to your own "initial remote host directory" under the startup tab! > >John > > > >Message: 4 > >Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 00:26:55 -0500 > >From: Lesley Shockey <[email protected]> > >Subject: [ROOTSWEB-HELP] FTP - no connection to Rootsweb > >To: [email protected] > >Message-ID: <[email protected]> > >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed > > > >The problem you are having with FTP - no connection to Rootsweb > >sounds very similar to the problem that I am having with two of my > >pages. However my WS_FTP does connect but I get a message in the > >lower display that says "retrieval of directory listing failed" each > >time I try connecting. The remote directory therefore remains > >blank. This is happening on my Jackson County WVGenWeb page and also > >my Shockey Family page. The same software is working fine with my > >WVGenWeb state page access so I believe that the problem is somewhere > >with the RootsWeb server. > > > >Les Shockey > >-- >John Gibson Chalmers - [email protected] >Homepages ... http://www.dgnscrn.demon.co.uk/ >and ... http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~chalmers/ > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' >without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > >-- >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG Free Edition. >Version: 7.5.430 / Virus Database: 268.15.6/566 - Release Date: >12/3/2006 4:36 PM West Virginia genealogy page: http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvgenweb/ Jackson County genealogy page: http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvjackso/JACK.HTM