Re: FTP setup nightmare on windows 2003

From: Roger Abell (mvpNOSpam_at_asu.edu)
Date: 12/31/04 

Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 05:29:08 -0700

Did you make F:\John\ user John's home dir ?
Whille not absolutely necessary, this at least in W2k FTP will
make the inital FTP access to there.
The you did not mention adding F:\John\ as an FTP vdir, which
must be done.
Finally, the message you are getting is because account John
has no access to the folder that is the root of the FTP virtual
storage, such as c:\inetpub\ftproot or whereever this has been
relocated (as is advisable)
You should never allow an admin account to be used with FTP
access, since FTP login is in clear text. 

-- 
Roger Abell
Microsoft MVP (Windows  Security)
MCSE (W2k3,W2k,Nt4)  MCDBA
"Shabam" <chalupa@yomama-nospam.com> wrote in message
news:m7WdnYf0ms6QeEncRVn-3w@adelphia.com...
I'm running windows 2003 server, and tried to set up FTP, but it's always
giving me this error message:
User John failed to log on, could not access the home directory /.
I created a system user "john", put him in the administrator's group, then
assigned him full permissions to the folder F:\John\.  Nothing seems to
work.  I even added "everyone", "system", and "authenticated users" to the
folder permissions.  Still nothing.
Why is this so hard to get set up, and exactly what do I need to do to get
it running?

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