FTP server for W2008 that supports net shares?

itm · 1 Jan 2012 at 21:16

I'm looking for an FTP server for Windows 2008 R2 that allows Windows network shares to be accessed.
Bulletproof FTP Server has this basic functionality, but does not allow Windows shares to be accessed if any of the sub-folders have embedded spaces in their names - e.g. "Program Data".
Can anyone recommend an FTP server that handles Windows shares well, regardless of folder naming conventions?

marc2003 · 1 Jan 2012 at 21:26

use the FTP server built into windows? if you use "add role" and it should be under IIS.

edit: i should be clear, i haven't tested this myself. it might work.

itm · 1 Jan 2012 at 21:34

marc2003 said:
use the FTP server built into windows? if you use "add role" and it should be under IIS.

edit: i should be clear, i haven't tested this myself. it might work.

TBH I tried that first, but couldn't work out how to connect to the IIS FTP server, even from the localhost. I even tried disabling the Windows firewall, but I couldn't get the server to accept a connection, so eventually disabled it.

SoundsGood · 1 Jan 2012 at 21:37

Fix the built in FTP..

Showboat · 1 Jan 2012 at 21:37

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsGPqkobCs8

Check that out

itm · 1 Jan 2012 at 21:47

Showboat said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsGPqkobCs8

Check that out

Thanks for the link. I've now managed to connect to the built-in FTP server. It doesn't appear to support shortcuts to network shares however. I created a shortcut to a mapped drive in the home directory, but it shows it as a .lnk file - i.e. it doesn't interpret it as a link to a share.

marc2003 · 1 Jan 2012 at 21:49

add a virtual directory to the FTP site.

itm · 1 Jan 2012 at 21:58

marc2003 said:
add a virtual directory to the FTP site.

Thanks. I've just added a virtual directory, but can't see it when I login. I assume it's due to a permissions issue...
I'm running in peer-to-peer (workgroup) mode (it's a small SOHO network). I have the same user id/password set up on the other machines in the network, including the machine which is hosting the share that I'm trying to access. What do I need to do re. permissions on the network hosts of the shares?