FTP Problems

I installed the windows components needed to setup a FTP server. I can log in from a remote computer just fine, but when I check the "allow only anonymous connections" I cannot log in anymore with the account that is specified.

Check out the attached file to see what I mean.

I am using Windows Server 2003. Again just to restate- everything works fine if I leave that box unchecked, but when I try to enable it for added security (I am just playing around with this to learn anyhow, but I want to know why it is doing this), it won't work. I renamed the IUSR_ account and have been using that to log in via ftp remotely, so all of the permissions for FTP should already be set.

 

Hey user_x,
Found this at MS to explain it.

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.

This article - http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=323384

Hope that helps.

 

If it doesn't... I know this won't directly fix the problem, but it is an alternative.

I would suggest installing a Linux Distribution, maybe SuSe, Cent OS or Red Hat.
Red Hat comes with FTP/SSH/Apache/etc Servers already installed! And also Linux is alot better then Windows for servers..

 

Yes because everyone knows that if have you have server 2003 License you should just through it away because your having a slight deficulty getting a ftp server setup even through the rest of things are working fine

 

Erm, yes, suggesting a different OS is a bit of a silly solution.

You'd need to evaluate what exactly you need anonymous access for. If you want one anonymous account, you can set that up with the name "anonymous" with no password - and the FTP client would log in with that account. So public FTP clients like a download manager. You could have the home directory of anonymous as the root of your public FTP, and your user accounts somewhere different.

That way you don't need to check that box

 

http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=86893

 

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