need help with IIS 5 and ftp

[Adul]

OK, I got the ftp to finally work, but I can't seem to be able to give access to a particular folder in the wwwroot. I am giving access to someone to be able to FTP their asp pages for practicing on. Can anyone help?

I am using windows 2k Pro.

 

[blstriker]

You most likely have a permissions problem. Make sure you have created an account for the user and then go the the folder you want to share and make sure the properties are set properly to allow that user access. You can try to FTP your own machine from itself to make sure it works.

Sorry so vague, but I don't know your setup.

 

[Adul]

Maybe that is where I am gettng lost. I don't know how to share a different folder for FTP. how do I add additional folder and share different folders under IIS?

 

[Adul]

anyone?

 

[BigToque]

Adul, I'm having the same problem right now.

I want to know how to give a user full access to his folder, but nothing else. I want him to log into the account, and have him come into the folder e:\ftp\(user account here) and I dont want them going to other folders.

i want to do what most isp's give you when you get web space with your account, only this is so my friends can upload/download stuff, and have websites on my computer

 

[err]

Hi adul,

The answer to your problem really depend on what version of Win2K you are running. If you are running Win2K Server with active directory, you would have to give local login right to that user. It is a little more complicated than running FTP server under regular Win2K.

Let's assume you have a regular Win2K w/o active directory ...

1. Create an FTP site in IIS, make sure to give read & write permission to the site.
2. Check in directory security option and make sure all IPs are allowed (or not).
3. Check that allow anonymous user is unchecked. (If you only want to give FTP access to certain account)
4. Create a new user with Computer management console
5. Go to the wwwroot folder (or wherever your FTP site is published to), right click, properties, securities and add the user that you wanted to be able to access that folder
6. click the appropriate permissions (maybe read, write, modify)
7. click on advanced and reset folder permissions (if needed)

You are done ! ....
easy huh?

I am doing this on top of my head, so I might be missing a few other details.

but if you have question, shoot me at my private message or in preferably in this thread.

eRr