Set up AspNetAuth on FTP with IIS7 and FTP service 7.5

your authprovider is failing.

do some packet inspection with wireshark to determine where the failure is occuring

it's either your connection to sql or the query/response

are you getting any events related to this on your sql server?

You're right. Now It works.

But now there is one other problem.

I use user isolation. When the user "aaa" tries to log in, I get the error "530 User cannot log in. Home directory inaccessible".

The directory structure is

LocalUser
    aaa
    Public


When I set a role base authorization in the user isolation in the way that users with the role "ftpupload" may log in, the user directory "aaa" inherits this setting. With this setting the user "aaa" cannot log in.

When I change the authorization setting for the "aaa" directory from role based to user based and allow the user "aaa" access to it, he can log in and anything works.

But I do this, I need to setup every new user manually. I did not want that because there can be lots of users that register for the web page. I would like to automatically create the home directory when a user registers.

set this up in your sign up script

when you create the user also create the home directory.  drop the home directory in the sql db along with user credentials.

have your authprovider pull the home dir

Hi Greg,

I tried to figure your tips out. But I cannot find any place in the Role- or Membership-Providers where the homepage could be retrieved from the provider.

I also cannot find a setting in the ftp server to pull the home directory from the provider.

does the directory exist?

I can create it when the user gets activated.

I plan to have site where a user register. This site has different roles. One of it is "ftpupload". Users with this role shall be able to upload files with user isolation. They shall not be able to see the files of other users.

I realized that I probably will be able to set up the proper rights using the IIS Management API. At the moment I try to figure out how this works.

http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/598/how-to-use-managed-code-c-to-create-a-simple-ftp-authentication-provider/

i'm sure you've probably been here,

we used this and added code for the connection to sql db and logging

I'm very close to what I want to achieve :-)

I'm now able to create virtual directories with the Microsoft.Web.Administration assembly.

I found nearly anything here: http://www.iis.net/ConfigReference/system.ftpServer/security/authorization

The only last problem I face is that I can setup authorization only for the main directory. I want to do it for single sub-directories. The attached code show the example for setting it for the main directory. But how to change if I want to set it for /aaa directory?

using System;using System.Text;using Microsoft.Web.Administration;
internal static class Sample
{
   private static void Main()
   {
      using (ServerManager serverManager = new ServerManager())
      {
         Configuration config = serverManager.GetApplicationHostConfiguration();
         ConfigurationSection authorizationSection = config.GetSection("system.ftpServer/security/authorization", "Default Web Site");
         ConfigurationElementCollection authorizationCollection = authorizationSection.GetCollection();

         ConfigurationElement addElement = authorizationCollection.CreateElement("add");
         addElement["accessType"] = @"Allow";
         addElement["roles"] = @"administrators";
         addElement["permissions"] = @"Read, Write";
         authorizationCollection.Add(addElement);

         ConfigurationElement addElement1 = authorizationCollection.CreateElement("add");
         addElement1["accessType"] = @"Deny";
         addElement1["users"] = @"guest";
         addElement1["permissions"] = @"Read, Write";
         authorizationCollection.Add(addElement1);

         serverManager.CommitChanges();
      }
   }
}

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Perfect... thanks a lot.. I'll try tomorrow.

If I have further questions I will open a new question with new points :-)