Re: Creating Multiple FTP Users and Containers (2000 Server + IIS)
From: Jeff Cochran (jeff.nospam_at_zina.com)
Date: 11/17/04
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Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 13:29:13 GMT
Might start with a look at:
Jeff
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 13:43:06 -0800, Matt T <Matt
T@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>Hi. I’m hoping someone here can help me with some if not all of this question.
>
>I’ve been assigned the task of creating 200+ local user accounts on a
>Windows 2000 Server and create corresponding Containers/Virtual Folders in
>IIS Administrator for an FTP site.
>
>I’m hoping I can script some, if not all of this procedure, but I am a
>complete Windows Scripting novice so I’m hoping that I can get some help on
>how to proceed.
>
>For the local users I need to be able to do the following:
>
>Enter the username and full name, both of which will be the same. They will
>be in the following incremental format: user1, user2, user3 … user200
>I will need to enter a description and a custom password. I will also need
>to configure the password so the user cannot change it and it never expires.
>
>Once the user is created it will have to be removed from the users group and
>added to the ftp-users group.
>
>A ‘Local Path’ will also need to be set on the Profile tab. This path will
>point to incrementing folder names: i.e. user1 will have a local path of
>D:\folders\site1; user2 will have a local path of D:\folders\site2
>
>I believe this is all possible through scripting; however I am very
>unfamiliar with it, as it is somewhat out of my normal area of work.
>
>
>What I am even more unsure of is scripting the creation of Virtual Folders
>in IIS Administrator.
>
>I need to create virtual directories with incremental aliases: i.e. site1,
>site2, site3 … site200
>
>The FTP Site Content path will then need to point to the corresponding
>user’s local path folder: i.e. site1 will need to point to the local path of
>user1
>
>The access permissions of the virtual folders will need to be set to
>read/write.
>
>Once this is done, Web Sharing will need to be enabled for each of the
>‘real’ FTP folders in D:\folders. The permissions will need to be set to
>read/write and no executables.
>
>Inheritable permissions will need to be deactivated for each folder in
>D:\folders\ and the permissions list will need to be modified. The ‘users’
>account will need to be removed from the list and the corresponding user
>account will need to be given ‘modify’ permissions (everything except ‘full
>control’): i.e. for folder D:\folders\site1, user1 will need to be added with
>modify permissions.
>
>Finally ‘High Isolation’ will need to be set for the FTP site within the WWW
>Container in IIS Administrator.
>I hope I explained this properly…
>
>As you can see, doing all this for 200 users would take a long time and
>scripting, even if it was only partial would be a life-saver. Any help
>offered will be greatly appreciated!
>
>Matt
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