"Patrick D." <PatrickD@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> Since my FTP Site in IIS 6 (Windows 2003) is not working, my first
> question
> is, if IIS is a good technology to establish an FTP Server?
> I guess, that the answer is "Yes", since IIS is a good product, but my
> knowledge in creating an FTP-Server in IIS is not yet very high.
>
> I have to create a FTP Site, where I want to grant write-permissions to a
> specific user. Any other user should not have access.
> I tried to do it like this:
> I created a FTP Site with the wizard. I granted write and read
> permissions.
> Then I created a windows user. Now I right-clicked my FTP Site in IIS and
> took the command "Permissions". I added the new user with write
> permissions
> for the FTP Site.
>
> Obviously that is not the end of the work, since IE7 tells me, after
> finding
> the FTP Site from a remote computer, that I have not the rights, to see
> anything in this FTP-folder.
> Is there a predefined Windows User, which I have to add for the FTP folder
> with write-access? Or what did I forget to do to have a proper FTP access
> from a remote computer?
>
> Thanks for your hint.
>
> regards
> Patrick