Servebeer troubles

Cincy'sOwnDrunk · Post by **Cincy'sOwnDrunk** » March 3, 2007 12:17 am

I keep having problems with the ftp servebeer site. For a while I wasn't able to logon, finally started working again, now I can't access it again. Maybe a computer guru can help. In Internet Explorer 7 (the newest version) when you got to the site, you have to go to the toolbar, click page, then open FTP in Explorer. It would then take you to the sign in. Now it gives a message that goes something like this......the folder "servebeer" is read-only because the proxy server is not set up to allow full access.....does that mean the site is messed up or do I need to configure a setting that has been somehow changed. I have made several changes to my pc lately....most notably going wireless, updating IE and Adobe. Am also having trouble with a PBSkids site that Flash Player will not work on when it used to work fine. I have scanned for virus' a few times with a few different programs and came up with nothing. I have also tried restore points but it says nothing has changed. Just wandered if anyone else was having trouble getting on or if it was just me and if it's me, how I can fix it. Thanks alot!

hawaiiboy · Post by **hawaiiboy** » March 3, 2007 12:35 am

You could try the Firefox browser and see if that will work
for you

SchoolGirlHeart · Post by **SchoolGirlHeart** » March 3, 2007 9:01 am

I'm running Firefox, have had no trouble in the past getting into servebeer, but for the last week or so it just times out....

Cincy'sOwnDrunk · Post by **Cincy'sOwnDrunk** » March 3, 2007 9:35 am

Yeah...I was having that problem with explorer a week or so ago...now I can't even get that far.

urlcenter · Post by **urlcenter** » March 3, 2007 5:44 pm

I wish I could help but I was banned from the ftp sites servebeer and jimmydreamz without explanation

Cincy'sOwnDrunk · Post by **Cincy'sOwnDrunk** » March 3, 2007 7:48 pm

Downloaded Firefox and still no luck.....Nobody speaks to the captain no more. Or at least he doesn't speak back!

SeattleParrotHead · Post by **SeattleParrotHead** » March 6, 2007 9:43 am

I upgraded to IE7 a couple of months ago and found that I couldn't download anything from the site. I went back to IE6 and my problems went away. Last weekend I upgraded to Vista and (unfortunately) got IE7 again. Now I can't even get into the site. I'm gonna try Fireox this weekend. sph

LIPH · Post by **LIPH** » March 6, 2007 10:44 am

I have Firefox on my home computer and I haven't been able to get into the site since last week.

gingerbreadman · Post by **gingerbreadman** » March 6, 2007 12:17 pm

If I ping these two sites I get back the same IP address and a response of "Request timed out".

In lay-person's terms this means that the server is turned off.

RinglingRingling · Post by **RinglingRingling** » March 6, 2007 12:20 pm

gingerbreadman wrote:If I ping these two sites I get back the same IP address and a response of "Request timed out".

In lay-person's terms this means that the server is turned off.

someone forgot their electric bill?

surfpirate · Post by **surfpirate** » March 6, 2007 12:33 pm

Right now the problems appear to be with the servebeer.com servers and are not related to your browsers. But even when the server problems are fixed, those of you who insist on using a browser as your FTP client, you will still have problems if you've recently upgraded from IE6 to IE7. My recommendation is to use a separate FTP client application, e.g. CuteFTP, rather than your browser (and that includes Firefox).

But ...... although IE7 isn't as "FTP friendly" as IE6 was, if you are trying to use FTP in IE 7, try the following procedure:

1. Open IE 7
Enter an FTP user name, password, and site in the URL bar using the following pattern:
"ftp://<username>:<password>@<site.tld>"
So using the username of jimmy, and a password of buffett, and your site is jimmybuffett.servebeer.com, you would use the following URL:
ftp://jimmy:buffett@jimmybuffett.servebeer.com

2. IE will display a directory listing of the FTP site.
3. Click the Page menu (hint: it's on the right hand side, under the search bar)
4. Select Open FTP Site in Windows Explorer.
5. Windows explorer opens in a new window. Windows can't remember that we've already given the username and password, so we have to do it again.
6. Click the File menu and select Login As….
7. Enter your user name (jimmy) and password (buffett), and click the Log On button.

For the userID/pwd above, this will take you to the directory. No, it isn't as smooth as IE 6, but it is doable!

SeattleParrotHead · Post by **SeattleParrotHead** » March 7, 2007 9:18 pm

Thanks, SurfPirate

I'll give that a try when the server's back.
sph

JustDucky · Post by **JustDucky** » March 7, 2007 9:54 pm

Wow, I just automatically figured it was some kind of Microsoft problem. Isn't it usually whenever anything goes wrong?

Cincy'sOwnDrunk · Post by **Cincy'sOwnDrunk** » March 7, 2007 10:08 pm

JustDucky wrote:Wow, I just automatically figured it was some kind of Microsoft problem. Isn't it usually whenever anything goes wrong?

Yeah, me too! Especially when it's something new and hasn't been "fixed" at least twice. Do you hear me Vista users!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hawaiiboy · Post by **hawaiiboy** » March 8, 2007 12:27 am

Maybe CM is away on vacation or something and
has shut the server down for a while.
If you do need to know what is going on, you
could always try sending him a pm