"seema shaikh" <seemashaikh@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:96830925-0134-4A17-884F-104944F34F05@microsoft.com...
> hey mmorgan1240,
> I think u might be able to help me on this one.... i have an FTP server.
> it
> is not a DC but it is a member server in the domain. I have created a
> domain
> user to log on to the ftp site. now my users have to give the username as
> domainname\username to authenticate to the ftp site. They don't want to do
> this. They just want to give the username without having to mention the
> domain name. So i created a local user, but the local user is unable to
> log
> on to the FTP site. I believe u have a similar setup. Can u plz tell me
> how u
> managed to get the local user log on to your ftp site?? I'll be very
> grateful.......
>
> "mmorgan1240@sbcglobal.net" wrote:
>
>> I have inherited a FTP windows 2003 server system and I am having some
>> trouble understanding something. We have users accessing the system
>> using both a local user ID and a domain user ID. We have to have two
>> listing on the security on all folders. Is there an easier way to do
>> this without having all these security policies? I still want the
>> security but I was hoping to be able to do authentication where if the
>> user didn't have a local ID it would check for a domain ID without
>> having to list it at the folder level.
>>
>>