Binding FTP Server Service to Internal Network Card

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Greetings everyone,

In Harry Brelsford's "Windows SBS 2003 Best Practices" (An awesome book,
btw!), Harry mentions that an extra security practice would be to bind the
ftp service to the internal NIC of the server. This would require a VPN
connection prior to connecting to the FTP.

My question is this:

Would you recommend this scenario to customers that have customers with
which they need to ftp?

If so, I'm guessing user accounts would need to be created for each customer
that will be connecting, and then extra steps would need to be taken to
ensure that they do not access anything else on the server. Am I correct in
my thinking?

-Alex
AMDG

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