Re: unable to delete locked folders on our company ftp

From: Mohammed A. Raslan (m_raslan_at_link.net.removethis)
Date: 12/15/04 

Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 03:00:00 +0300

Stop the FTP service, delete the file you want, fix the permission problem,
start the FTP service again 

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Yours truly,
Mohammed A. Raslan
Systems Engineer / Consultant
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"spenj2k" <spenj2k.1h9b9m@mail.webservertalk.com> wrote in message
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>
> Hiya, basically someone enabled FTP on our ISS server but forgot to take
> off anonymous access. All of a sudden our disk space started
> dissapearing!
>
> Anyway yesterday I found out we've had someone scan the server and have
> had people uploading rubbish to it.
>
>
>
> I'm unable to delete the files and folders that were uploaded.
> Looking at the folder in explorer it appears as a blank name
>
> In the log file it appears as "+++++++++++"
>
> I cannot rename it or delete it
>
> the whole path to where the files are looks like:
>
>
/+++++++++++/+++prn.hsp.laserjet+++/++++com6++++++/+++++nul+++/++lpt8+++/upp
ed+by+C********/
>
> I've heard that using "com#" locks folders aswell?
>
>
> another example of a path is:
>
> /wwwroot/images/maps/pdf/+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> /+++++++++++++++++++com2/+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++k/
>
>
>
>
> how can i get rid of all this? it wont even let me delete the files
> that are within the folders
>
> Your help & time is much appreciated and thanks in advance
>
>
> Spencer
>
>
> Forgot to mention we are running Windows server 2003 with IIS6
>
>
>
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