ftp setup

IIRC, this was discussed a while back, and I think the outcome was that you can't have completely different "sites" for users - you can limit a user to one directory, and another user to a different directory again, but each user will be able to see the other's folder - eg:

ftproot\
ftproot\user1s_folder
ftproot\user2s_folder

Does this help or are you after something else?

Thanks for your reply.  At this point I can only setup Anonymous login, I am looking to setup specific domain users for access.  What permissions does a user have to have?

Thanks,

Joseph

I haven't done this, but if a user has access to the share via windows file permissions, all they need is a valid domain account.  If the server is not a domain controller, you are able to setup local accounts for the FTP server.

Do some testing and see what you are able to come up with.  I do know that there isn't any ability to configure what you're looking at within the MMC snap-in, so if this is possible, its got to be done at a windows file security level.

The domain user must have logon locally user rights to be able to log on to the ftp site.

durin logon you need to use domain\username or username@domain.com to login.

You can have user1 login to folder1 and user2 to folder2 if the follwing is satisfied.
The loginname is the same as the ftp virtual foldername.

Hope this helped.

Thanks for your reply, but I was looking for better understanding of the virtual directory and permissions.  I'm not clear on how to set up different folders with it's own permissions. Can you clarify?

Thanks,
Joseph

FTP must have its own IP to run and unless you have more than one IP on the machine you can have only one FTP site.

The FTP site will point to a ftp root folder. any folders within the root folder can be FTPed to if the right permissions are granted.

If you have another folder that is not within the the root folder or you want a quicker path to the folder, you use the virtual directory to create it (something like a shortcut).

Folder permissions are the NTFS permissions which you can explicitly grant specifc permissions. If on the FTP level you grant write and on NTFS level you deny it. The person will not be able to ftp the file to the server, vice versa for read.

If you need more details you need to read it from net or books.

Thanks for your reply.  I'm familer with NTFS and logon locally and so on.  I wasn't clear on how virtual directory work.  I checked MSKB, I was unable to find any info explaining virtual directory.  I guess I'll just mess with it for while.  Basically I was wanting to create subfolders like \ftp\dir1 and \ftp\dir2, while granting user1 access to user1 to dir1 and user2 to dir2 without either one accessing or listing the other's.

Thanks,

Joseph

thank you pssiew.  That should do it.

no problems sis.
Hoped it all worked out for you