How to add FTP in server 2008 sbs

thank you! it worked. but I am not sure why if I setup FTP user isolation, it didn't allow me to login. It would work if I choose "user name directory" under "do not isolate users"

And the other strange is that I had to log in using domain\username, is there a way to remove that?

thanks, I saw thw article already and it seems I had to create a folder and name it as my domain name to get rid of the domain name input. Is that filezilla ftp server really more secure than the windows ftp server? I have tried to install it, it was really easy to setup, but it seems it couldn't integrate with domain users account.

FileZilla wont integrate with Windows for login credentials. In some cases, that's a good thing. I have deployed it in situations where that is what the client wanted. It's super simple to manage.

Now that you have the domain folder in the FTP root, are there any other reasons you aren't liking IIS FTP? Let us know, we an likely help you solve it.

And regarding security, if it were just FTP I am sure the products are actually quite similar, but if you are needlessly running IIS web services just because you installed everything in IIS, I think that is what kdebugs was saying is a POTENTIAL security issue. I agree, running IIS web services needlessly wouldnt be ideal, but you can always just stop and disable that portion of it.

I think I will go with filezilla instead of IIS ftp just for the reason of easy to setup.
But I think FTP is not secure anyway, it's not encypted. unless I use FTPS, I guess?
is FTP still being widely used today among companies or is there any better alternative?