Connecting to an old Mac across mobil internet

Tried to connect from Leopard per afp://url to an old iMac with MacOS 9.x on which a ftp-server is running, have now full access withot identification.
Has this everyone?
Regards, Karl

Hello karl,
Strange, that's not normal. Maybe because you did not use protection.
If you gave the ftp server guest access it's possible to connect without identification.

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