Change permission in IIS

I understand that if I setup the ftp server for my webserver then I should be able to use the chmod 666 and so on but what if I don't have ftp server setup. How do I change the permission when some instruction asked to change the permission to something like chmod 444? How do I do that in Windows?

You can't use a ftp client to change permissions on a windows server. And you don't set permissions by chmod style values at all. Research NTFS, permissions, acl's, etc to get an understanding of windows permissions, they are much more sophisticated than *nix file permissions.

I usually use windows explorer to change permissions. Supposedly you can change file permissions using the IIS MMC management console. But forget any chmod numbers you know, they flat out don't apply to a windows filesystem.

Thanks for the response. Yes, the chmod does not work in windows. I did use Windows Explorer to change the permission of files and folders. But I was just wondering if there is a correlation between the numbers and windows permission.

Nope. And if you do look at chmod permissions using a ftp client on a windows server, you'll get back a bogus chmod value.