Ftp service windows server 2003

Click to select the Allow Anonymous Connections check box if it is not already selected , and then click to select the Allow only anonymous connections check box. When you click to select the Allow only anonymous connections check box, you configure the FTP Service to allow only anonymous connections.

Users cannot log on by using user names and passwords. Click to select the Read and Log visits check boxes if they are not already selected , and then click to clear the Write check box if it is not already cleared.

In addition to being able to configure the same options about how or when a new log file is created and the location of the log file, this format has an additional tab labeled Advanced.

There are far too many data items to discuss in this chapter, but you need to be aware that you can create a customized log file that stores just the information you need. You might find that on an anonymous FTP server, you don't care much about what data is stored in the log file, whereas on a server that provides for a secure logon, you might want to collect extensive data about the users of your system.

To find out the meaning of each of these logging options, click the Help button and a brief description of each item will be displayed. However, when using anonymous FTP, you need to be aware that a simple hack is to use this anonymous account to fill up the allocated space so that other users cannot use the anonymous login. If you allow anonymous FTP connections, you also can configure the user account that will be used for these connections.

Messages This tab enables you to input text that's presented to the user when logging in to and upon exiting the service. You also can enter a message that will be displayed to users who try to log on to the server when the maximum number of user sessions has already been reached.

You can select a directory that's local to the server or a directory that's offered as a file share from another computer. If you choose the file share option, you'll be prompted to enter authentication information needed to connect to the file share. Here you can select whether the directory can be read, written to, or both. You also can select to allow logging for this directory. Finally, this tab can be used to specify how directory listings are displayed to users.

Directory Security This tab is important because it enables you to decide which computers or IP addresses will be allowed to connect to the service. You can choose to allow all computers access and then specify a number of specific computers to exclude from access, or you can choose to deny access to all computers and then add in only those specific addresses you want to allow to use the service. When using the Directory Security tab to allow or deny access to the FTP service, remember that some computers use a proxy server.

This is typically found when the computer to which you want to grant access is on the other side of a firewall. In this case, the address of the firewall acting as a proxy server uses its address when sending connection requests instead of the actual address of the client computer.

If you allow or deny access in this manner, any computer that uses the proxy server will be allowed or denied access. Additionally, you can set the location of the log file. For the W3C extended log file format, you have many more options. In addition to being able to configure the same options about how or when a new log file is created and the location of the log file, this format has an additional tab labeled Advanced.

There are far too many data items to discuss in this chapter, but you need to be aware that you can create a customized log file that stores just the information you need. You might find that on an anonymous FTP server, you don't care much about what data is stored in the log file, whereas on a server that provides for a secure logon, you might want to collect extensive data about the users of your system.

To find out the meaning of each of these logging options, click the Help button and a brief description of each item will be displayed. However, when using anonymous FTP, you need to be aware that a simple hack is to use this anonymous account to fill up the allocated space so that other users cannot use the anonymous login. If you allow anonymous FTP connections, you also can configure the user account that will be used for these connections.

Messages This tab enables you to input text that's presented to the user when logging in to and upon exiting the service. You also can enter a message that will be displayed to users who try to log on to the server when the maximum number of user sessions has already been reached.

You can select a directory that's local to the server or a directory that's offered as a file share from another computer. If you choose the file share option, you'll be prompted to enter authentication information needed to connect to the file share.

Here you can select whether the directory can be read, written to, or both. You also can select to allow logging for this directory. Finally, this tab can be used to specify how directory listings are displayed to users.

Directory Security This tab is important because it enables you to decide which computers or IP addresses will be allowed to connect to the service. You can choose to allow all computers access and then specify a number of specific computers to exclude from access, or you can choose to deny access to all computers and then add in only those specific addresses you want to allow to use the service.

When using the Directory Security tab to allow or deny access to the FTP service, remember that some computers use a proxy server. This is typically found when the computer to which you want to grant access is on the other side of a firewall. When an FTP site uses this feature, each user accessing the site has an FTP home directory that is a subdirectory under the root directory for the FTP site, and from the perspective of the user their FTP home directory appears to be the top-level folder of the site.

This means users are prevented from viewing the files in other users' FTP home directories, which has the advantage of providing security for each user's files.

Continue with the wizard and be sure to give users both Read and Write permission so they can upload and download files. Your folder structure should now look like this:. Click Next and enter an administrator account in the domain, the password for this account, and the full name of the domain:.

Click Next and confirm the password and complete the wizard in the usual way. You'll notice that you weren't prompted to specify a root directory for the new FTP site. You could set these environment variables using a logon script and assign the script using Group Policy, but that's beyond the scope of this present article.

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