long cranky rant about WarFTP and an impassioned plea for help (was RE: [thelist] WarFTP perms)

patrick pms at stoutstreet.com
Sun Dec 14 21:11:11 CST 2003



Joel D Canfield wrote:

>>>I can connect via FTP, but no matter what I touch, I get a 
>>>permissions error.
>>>      
>>>
>>First - Make sure that the System account has FULL access to your ftp 
>>directory tree.
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>It does, and always has.
>
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>>Second - Make user that your new FTP User Account has the 
>>proper WarFTPd 
>>permissions to access the target directory. Just setting the 
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>It does, and always has.
>
>In War, the user I'm connecting with has all possible permissions for
>the entire directory tree. User with the same name has full NTFS rights
>to the entire directory tree. Unless I go to anonymous access, it's not
>possible to grant more permissions than the user I'm testing with
>already has.
>
>I've been fighting this thing for going on nine months. I'm starting to
>feel stupid. How hard can it be to set up an FTP server?
>
>It can't be this hard. This is my second installation of WarFTP, and
>first time, I had it installed and functioning within 20 minutes. I've
>done nothing different here, using a nearly identical hardware and
>software setup, yet this time, after nine months, I'm no closer than the
>day I downloaded it.
>
>WarFTP claims to be nearly ubiquitous, but my pleas for help don't seem
>to get much response. Does anyone besides Anthony really use WarFTP?
>What else is out there? 
>
>How about this: is anyone interested in configuring my FTP server for
>me? I used to think I was a network administrator, with *some* clue how
>to manage a simple little Windows network. Maybe I was wrong.
>
>So, what would you charge me to make my f*()#$ing FTP server work? All I
>want is to allow each of the four people I'm hosting for FTP access to
>their own site, and nothing else. And I want full access to the web
>directories via FTP.
>
>Yeah, I'm frustrated and cranky. Sorry.
>
>joel
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Late to the thread, but is your firewall/ISP allowing your FTP through?


/patrick



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