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by robinarm

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I have an FTP site running on NT4, IIS4 with MS Proxy2. The site is fine and allows anonymous access via the internet but I cant alow individual users to login and access their own individual directories.

I've created test users and created directories for them and given each test user read / write rights to their own dirs in NT Explorer. I've unchecked "allow only anonymous access" and given the test users the right to "log on locally". When I try and access their directories with IE5 I getaccess denied. When I select "logon as" and enter the username and password the login fails. The same happens when I use the command line FTP.

I've been through Technet and tried all the suggestions but the same thing happens.

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by jiggy1001

I used to have the problem but i got it solved now and this is what i did. After you uncheck 'allow only anonynous access' -if this site is for only for individual clients i suggest you disable anonymous totally so that it's only clients with accessrights that log in to their FTP Directories.

Create a Local Group that consist of the individual clients and grant the Local Group the 'logon locally' rights. Grant 'Write' access only not read (if it's not an anonymous site) to the FTP site undet MMC. Creat a folder named "uploads" and grant Everyone group (W)(RX) rights, then create each individuals folder and grant ONLY the individual the special access right (RW)(RW)

With this indivuduals should be able to log on. Remember that in both cases, grant the administrator a Full Control access right.

by robinarm

Thanks for your help but your suggestion didn't work.

In the end I took everything I had done out and recreated the dirs, users and permissions and it worked second time round. I don't think I did anything differently the second time around so I don't know why it worked this time when it wouldn't before.

Anyway Its nice to know other people can have the same problems as me.

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