"paul" <pmnagl@aol.com> wrote in message
news:1192232691.942972.73150@q5g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
>I am trying to grant an ftp user access to 3 folders in a folder
> containing about 30 folders. I have the ftp site root folder to be
> the parent folder of these 3 folders. I granted rights to the 3
> subfolders and at the parent folder (FTP root) I added the user, went
> to advanced permissions and basically gave it read permissions but
> only to "this folder only".
>
> It works ok but the ftp user can still see the 30 or so other folders
> she doesn't have access to. She can't go into them but she can still
> see them.
>
> Is there a way to make it so she can only see the 3 folders she has
> access to?
>
> Thanks,
> Paul
>

<qbern...@hotmail.com.discuss> wrote:
> Not really as it need to have list folder content at parent folder. so the
> user will see other users folders.
> if you using IIS FTP 6 then you can try the user isolation folder feature.
> else - you can use virtual directory for the physical folder mapping. by
> design vdir is hidden from dir listing.
>
> so you would set
> ftproot -> d:\dummy
> userVdir -> d:\users\folderXXX
>
> but in this case, when user logged in, they see nothing from dir listing and
> have to navigate to the folder 'bindly'
>
> --
> Regards,
> Bernard Cheahhttp://www.iis.net/http://msmvps.com/blogs/bernard/
>
> "paul" <pmn...@aol.com> wrote in message
>
> news:1192232691.942972.73150@q5g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
>
> >I am trying to grant an ftp user access to 3 folders in a folder
> > containing about 30 folders. I have the ftp site root folder to be
> > the parent folder of these 3 folders. I granted rights to the 3
> > subfolders and at the parent folder (FTP root) I added the user, went
> > to advanced permissions and basically gave it read permissions but
> > only to "this folder only".
>
> > It works ok but the ftp user can still see the 30 or so other folders
> > she doesn't have access to. She can't go into them but she can still
> > see them.
>
> > Is there a way to make it so she can only see the 3 folders she has
> > access to?
>
> > Thanks,
> > Paul

"paul" <pmnagl@aol.com> wrote in message
news:1192490440.879077.219600@i13g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
>I think I had it wrong anyways.
>
> If I take my newly created user with no group memberships and connect
> via FTP about 6 folders are visable dspite teh fact that I granted no
> file system acess and no group memberships. How can I figure out
> where these rights were granted.
>
> If I want to do this what would be the optimal way to do it.
>
> Thanks,
> Paul
>
>
> On Oct 13, 8:10 pm, "Bernard Cheah [MVP]"
> <qbern...@hotmail.com.discuss> wrote:
>> Not really as it need to have list folder content at parent folder. so
>> the
>> user will see other users folders.
>> if you using IIS FTP 6 then you can try the user isolation folder
>> feature.
>> else - you can use virtual directory for the physical folder mapping. by
>> design vdir is hidden from dir listing.
>>
>> so you would set
>> ftproot -> d:\dummy
>> userVdir -> d:\users\folderXXX
>>
>> but in this case, when user logged in, they see nothing from dir listing
>> and
>> have to navigate to the folder 'bindly'
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Bernard Cheahhttp://www.iis.net/http://msmvps.com/blogs/bernard/
>>
>> "paul" <pmn...@aol.com> wrote in message
>>
>> news:1192232691.942972.73150@q5g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
>>
>> >I am trying to grant an ftp user access to 3 folders in a folder
>> > containing about 30 folders. I have the ftp site root folder to be
>> > the parent folder of these 3 folders. I granted rights to the 3
>> > subfolders and at the parent folder (FTP root) I added the user, went
>> > to advanced permissions and basically gave it read permissions but
>> > only to "this folder only".
>>
>> > It works ok but the ftp user can still see the 30 or so other folders
>> > she doesn't have access to. She can't go into them but she can still
>> > see them.
>>
>> > Is there a way to make it so she can only see the 3 folders she has
>> > access to?
>>
>> > Thanks,
>> > Paul
>
>