Unable to access FTP site?

Hi All,

I am new to this forum so I hope that I am posting in the correct topic space.

Currently I have a challenge with administering my IIS 5.0 installation. As I am running Windows 2000 Server I have no choice (to the best of my knowledge) but to use IIS 5, although I understand that it is recommended by Microsoft that at least version 6 be used.

I have successfully setup an FTP site within IIS. I have alocated the site a home directory, and I have accessed the site using the Administrator account and password.

Knowing that passwords are sent "across the wire" in plain text when accessing an FTP site within IIS I am not comfortable with using the Administrator account to access the site.

I have turned off "Allow Anonymous Connections" and I have created an account specifically for accessing the site. This account has been added to the FTP Site Operators list.

I have also set the Home Folder for the new account (within Active Directory) to the same Local Path as the FTP sites Home directory.

After all of the above I am receiving the following error message;

530 User <Domain>\<User Name> Cannot Login

As an attempt to resolve this error message I have performed all of the steps outlined at Microsoft Knowledge Base article 200475 (my apologizes; forum rules do not permit me to publish URLs).

Unfortunately I am still not able to login to the FTP site with the account that I created.

If anybody has any suggestions regarding a fix for the above they will be greatly appreciated.

Kind Regards,

Davo

I'd start by verifying the file and folder permissions on the ftp home folder for the user, and log on the server as that user and make sure the user has the appropriate access to the ftp files.

There is a lot of information on IIS security and permissions in the IIS online help. If you don't see a link in the IIS MMC to the help, on the server try opening a web browser to http://localhost/iishelp

Hi Doug,

Thanks for the advice.

I have double checked the file permissions on the Home directory, and I have set them to "List Folder Contents & Read" only, as I do not want the account that I am attempting to connect to be able to make changes.

Cheers

Davo

Hi All,

I have discovered that I need to allow full access to the FTP root directory in order to login to the site. Originally I setup the root directory with "List Contents & Read" privileges only.

I am not happy with providing full control over the FTP root directory just to allow access.

Is there any way to make the site accessible whilst maintaining "List Contents & Read" privileges only.

Thanks

Davo

I don't use IIS FTP, I don't really know, sorry. I haven't visited http://www.iisfaq.com/ in a long time, they used to have some FTP configuration documentation there.