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Hopefully an easy FTP Question - Defaulting to Home Directory

Trying to setup an FTP server. I've tried Cerberus FTP and Filezilla FTP server. Both allow you to set a home directory for an FTP user. However, when that user logs in they are not immediately sent to that directory. You still have to change directory to the home folder.

I know on Linux this isn't a problem. We are running win2k3 standard and I'd rather not use IIS but will if that's the only way to get the home directory issue working. Any advice is appreciated

Rodney Barnhardt

Have you configured the path for the users under the shared folder on Firezilla and given the folder the appropriate permissions? By default, Windows 2003 and higher have read only permissions. I had to change mine to allow uploads.

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dolomiti

hi,
have you tried to cfg a generic H: in your ftp server,
and define in user script / or profile HOME dir as \\servername\share\%usrname% ?

In Unix the approach is different: when Unix went up, all was in a server: applications, users, programs.
Each user has a /home/path and a entry in /etc/passwd, when he log in interctively (by telnet).
For FTP is easy use the same dir. In Win, user does not login directly on the server, all is a bit more flexible but complicated.

bye
vic

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rbarnhardt
yes i have the appropriate permissions. the problem is that when the user logs in they still have to perform another step (change dir) to get to their home directory. They aren't already inside their home directory.

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