"jo" <jozatan@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hey Chris,
>
> Amazing tool! Thanks a bunch. The only down side I could see at the
> moment (again: I'm so far away from an expert, even from an advanced
> level) is that the admin password could be seen at the time I'm typing
> it.
>
> I understand why the directories are not created at the moment.
> Actually it's not very smart that we cannot point FTPRoot in such
> format as \\server\path\to\ftproot, so we have to put it as
> local:\path\to\ftproot. It has a good and a bad side. The good side is
> that we can have multiple ftp servers with the same directory structure
> and could command the user from AD with a single variable as soon as
> there is a directory for that user on the ftp server. The bad side is
> if we have more then a single ftp server but with different directory
> structure, or if we want the tool to create a directory will be a pain.
>
> In your case the directory creation could be imported in the tool but
> only if we are running it on the local machine. Otherwise has to be
> much more complicated. It could be done remote as an administrator
> but... what if there are multiple ftp servers?
>
> I'm running just a single ftp on all my WAN and this tool just saved my
> life. I hope I'll convince (half way done) our windows admin to agree
> with me (I'm the UNIX/Net engineer guy).
>
> I just switched back to 3 (Isolate Users with Active Directory) from 2
> (Isolate Users). It's much more flexible.
>
> Chris, thanks again. I appreciate what you have done. It's a great
> thing. Really! If you improve anything please let me know.
>
> PS The problem with the first time login directory creation still stays
> in front of me =)
>

"jo" <jozatan@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hello guys.
>
> I'm using FTP from server 2003 in isolation mode without AD. Works
> great without any problems. I tried isolation with AD which also works
> great but I don't like to write vb scripts to set FTPRoot/FTPDir for
> thousands of users and after that other scripts to check which user has
> and which doesn't have the right settings. I'm not good with vbs...
> anyway. So, back to the point.
>
> I'd like to be able to create FTP directory for my users on-a-fly. If
> the FTP directory for an AD users doesn't exist I'd like to be auto
> created. I've thousand of users and it's not very easy to create
> manually directory for each one.
>
> There is an option in AD profile which we are using to create
> directories automatically but in that case first it's already in use,
> and it's not an option in my case =(
>
> I'm looking on the net to find anything but so far I was unable to.
>
> Please, help me.
>
> Thank you in advance.
>