>I can't try right now with IE7, but I think there are some other limitation to access FTP sites, not because of IE7. You could try to write: ftp://ftp.prolib.de/public in your Windows Explorer address bar to see what happens. I am pretty sure that this request goes through IE, but who knows ... :-)

BTW, does Re: Config.nt Thread #1193179 Message #1193195 link from the first link open correctly for you? It may be the same problem here, that I can not access that link.