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Create or Add ftp user to a server or to a website

  • First login to the server as an administrator rights
  • Now go to user accounts and create a new user in the Standard User group. In windows server 2008, go to User Account> Advanced>Advanced to create a new user.
  • Now go to IIS
  • Right Click on sites and Add a FTP Site
  • Fill the details as per your requirement. You can select specific folder.
  • Optional
    • You can select specific user group or a specific user or anonymous user access.
    • Restriction based on IP address. Example a specific IP is only authorised to login.
  • Go to that FTP account in IIS and go to FTP User Isolation and change the setting as per below screenshot:
Add FTP user to server
  • Now go to the General FTP Site on your IIS>FTP Authorization. And a Deny Rule for this user for the top level
Add FTP to a website
  • In Bindings give a specific port for this user. (Make sure this port is not being used anywhere else otherwise this FTP account will be stopped.)
  • Go to IIS > Advanced Settings > Connections and increase the Control Channel Timeout and Data Channel Timeout to 500



Posted: 22/04/2013 8:35:44 p.m. by Gitesh Shah | with 0 comments