I have had a look at that documentation a few times and followed the steps but it still refuses to work in IE or Windows Explorer, yet if I use the command prompt and log on it does recognise the ftp server and lets me log onto it but user name has to be in format <ftpserver>|<username> for...

I managed to get the service to install on my Vista system and can access a root ftp server no problem, the problem I am having is when I set up a ftp site with a host name (example ftp://ftp.nwsoftware.co.uk ) IE returns a DNS error and Windows Explorer throws out a '530 Valid hostname is expected'...