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I am setting up an NT IIS FTP server. I don't need the www service, this machine is only going to be used for FTP. I need help on setting it up as well as how to set individual passwords for different folders that are going to be on there.

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by lintadsl

You can have only FTP service running in IIS.
Have stop WWW service in IIS.

When you set up a home directory for individulal user account, that makes each user have differect folder.

Good Luck.

by infosecmn

I don't understand what you mean. I need to know how to set up security on separate folders to ensure only the people I want to have upload access.

by william shipway

You need to disable Anonymous access if you only want specific users to have access. Then you need to make sure you enable Windows or secure logon. This is done in the IIS administrator program.

Create a local user for each person who will access the server (using User Manager). Set a secure password, ie one that does not contain dictionary words and has at least ten characters.

Then, edit Properties of each sub-directory of the FTP root that you want users to have access to. Go into the Security settings and add that user with Change access, or whatever is suitable.

You can also add virtual roots in IIS Administrator so that users can put documents in other areas on the server, but make sure that you don't allow access to thesystem disk.

You can set the Startup properties of the World Wide Web publishing service to Disabled, and then it will not start if the server is rebooted.

HTH
William

by infosecmn

After setting up the FTP site twice and twice being hacked into...I learned from MS that you cannot set up an FTP site on NT 4.0 that is safe from hackers. Thanks for you help but now I have to go back to the drawing board and find a different solution.

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