Bernard Cheah [MVP] wrote:
> Not natively. FTP does has minimum security control.e.g. login
> authentication, ip restriction, access authorization, etc. but none of this
> has open interface via ftp protocol.
>
> so to get what you need. your app will have to do some magic. say
> dynamically allow userABC to download file.
> E.g. let's say. now your application accept userABC, so you need to create
> userABC windows account, grant the account read / write access on the
> files/etc. when userABC try to connect ftp, it will first authenticate with
> ftp before accessing the file.

"Steve Richter" <StephenRichter@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Is is possible for the Windows FTP server to call a server side program
> that would decide if the FTP connection is to be accepted or rejected?
>
> The FTP server side program would be passed parms such as user name,
> password, IP address of the client, type of access ( put or get ) and
> the directory being accessed. This program would return an accept or
> reject return code.
>
> If this is not possible can I dynamically config access to the FTP
> server? If someone wants access to my FTP server they first visit my
> web site and an email message containing a temporary user name and
> password is sent to them. My server code then dynamically configs the
> FTP server to allow access to that user.
>
> Clicking the link on my web site to download a file ( source code )
> does not work because the end user is on a mainframe type system and
> the PC they are browsing from is not the system to FTP to.
>
> I hope this is clear.
>
> thanks,
>
> -Steve
>