"Tony Benham" <tonyb@imageproc.com> wrote in message
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> We have installed a windows 2003 server recently.
> At present we have a standalone ftp server running on an old pc for a
> number of customer accounts, so we can serve files or upload files.
> This pc is being thrown away, so I was wondering if whether to provide the
> ftp service from iis running on server2003 ?
> However the user accounts for the ftp server are not and will not be
> domain users as such. Is it possible to create a number of users in iis
> ftp that are not domain accounts ? and are only used for ftp purposes ?
> Regards
> Tony
>

".._.." <.._..@yourmom.mil> wrote in message
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> Is the Windows 2003 server a domain controller?
>
> If yes, stop. You are done. You really really really do not want to get
> into the situation of serving anything but domain controller stuff (file
> shares, permissions, internal dns, etc) with it. As you suspect, those
> accounts would be domain accounts (a DC has no local accounts).
>
> If no, then just make the accounts on the machine and proceed normally.
>
> You might consider just getting an el-cheapo server to run the FTP that is
> not set up as a domain controller, or, you could use the domain controller
> and use some third party FTP software that manages permissions without
> hooking in with the operating system.
>
> "Tony Benham" <tonyb@imageproc.com> wrote in message
> news:uonIM77ZHHA.1400@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> We have installed a windows 2003 server recently.
>> At present we have a standalone ftp server running on an old pc for a
>> number of customer accounts, so we can serve files or upload files.
>> This pc is being thrown away, so I was wondering if whether to provide
>> the ftp service from iis running on server2003 ?
>> However the user accounts for the ftp server are not and will not be
>> domain users as such. Is it possible to create a number of users in iis
>> ftp that are not domain accounts ? and are only used for ftp purposes ?
>> Regards
>> Tony
>>
>
>