Re: Windows Server 2003, IIS6, isolating users frustration

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From: Jeff Cochran (jeff.nospam_at_zina.com)
Date: 09/17/04 

Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 21:29:15 GMT

On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 16:54:17 -0500, "William Morris"
<news.remove.this.and.the.dots@seamlyne.com> wrote:

>We have a folder structure, developed under Win2K/IIS5, that looks about
>like this:
>
>c:\inetpub\wwwroot
> \OurApplication
> \ClientImages
> \ClientID1
> \ClientID2
> \DataUploads
> \ClientID3
> \ClientID4
>
>In IIS, it looks like this...
>
>OurFTPSites
> \ClientLogin1 (virtual - pointing to
>c:\inetpub\wwwroot\OurApplication\ClientImages\ClientID1)
> \ClientLogin2 (virtual - ditto\ClientID2)
> \ClientLogin3 (virtual - c:\inetpub\wwwroot\DataUploads\ClientID3)
> \ClientLogin4 (virtual - ditto\ClientID4)
>
>Under IIS5, by giving each of our users their own logins and virtual
>directories, they are locked in to their own folders but within the web tree
>so the web application/ASP files, scripting.FileSystemObject, and other
>programs can all get to the files.
>
>So, now we're getting ready to move to another server, Windows2003/IIS6.
>I've read all about isolating users, but it appears that we're being locked
>into a folder structure of "ftproot\LocalUser\username", which doesn't help.

If you change your web root to match it works fine. Or use virtual
folders pointing to the web roots.

>I've tried using the IIS5 method of virtual directories, but I get a "User
>ClientLogin1 cannot log in, home directory inaccessible." Permissions are
>set properly on the target folder, identical in every substantive way to our
>Win2K server.

Still have to have the same structure, the virtual folder is in the
uer's root, you can't use it *as* the user's root.

>What's the answer here? Am I stuck with the folder structure Microsoft
>dictates?

Yep.

>Seems like a HUGE step backwards.

So use a Non-Microsoft FTP server such as WFTPD.

Jeff

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