Windows 2003 - FTP (external user access)

la112651 · 23 Aug 2009 at 13:50

Hi all,

Just after some help regarding FTP. We have a location on a server that we currently share via FTP. At the moment its available to anonymous access however I'd like to lock this down. I've read guides about domain user access to FTP but I can't find how to enable access to external users (non domain users) do I need a third party program for this sort of configuration?

Thanks in advance.

la112651 · 23 Aug 2009 at 13:59

Or if anyone can advise a better way of securely providing a location on a server to external users with Read and Write access, I would be happy for some advise

m4cc45 · 23 Aug 2009 at 15:02

Easiest way would be to get a free FTP program to do it for you. Other wise you end up making users and locking the direcotries down via that.

http://www.freesshd.com/

Is a good one - allows SFTP access as well which is basically an encrypted FTP connection.

If you have a few pounds to spare then Raiden FTPD is, again, very good but can be very confusing to setup.

The above one is very easy, you create users and passwords and choose there home directory. You can configure it so that they just have access to that one directory and don't know anything about the other directories on there.

M.

la112651 · 23 Aug 2009 at 16:45

Thanks M4cc45 thats just what I wanted, thanks for your help.