Re: virtual directories for the ftp server

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From: John Spaith [MS] (jspaith_at_ONLINE.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/21/05

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    Yes - this is a bug in our documentation. I've just opened a bug to get
    this fixed in a future release. Thank you for bringing this to my attention
    and apologies for the time you've wasted on this. 

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John Spaith
Software Design Engineer, Windows CE
Microsoft Corporation
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"Roger N." <Roger N.@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
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> John, thanks for you help. It worked! I also could use rooted virtual
> directories.
> I see now where I got it wrong. I used the example in the documentation 
> from
> Win CE .NET 4.2 for my platform. Could it be that there's a mistake?
> Beacause in the
> example the registry key doesn't use "\/". I thought I'd mention it  for
> future
> releases.
>
> Regards
> Roger N.
>
>
>
> "John Spaith [MS]" wrote:
>
>> I don't think the FTP Server can handle rooted virtual directory names 
>> like
>> that.  So you could have VROOTS\Foo but not necesasrily VROOTS\foo\bar. 
>> I'm
>> pretty sure about this from code review.
>>
>> I am also almost positive you do not want the double slash in the 
>> registry
>> key name but want a "\/"- i.e. the "VROOTS\\compactflash" should be
>> VROOTS\/compactflash.  You need the "\\" in the actual registry string
>> itself because this "\" acts as a C-style escape, but this is not needed 
>> in
>> the Registry Key name itself.
>>
>> If you still don't have luck, you can try getting a debug version of the 
>> FTP
>> server up and running.  From there you can enable more debug zones and 
>> see
>> if anything jumps out at you.  You can also look at the source code 
>> (shipped
>> in PB) and debug through it in 
>> %_WINCEROOT%\public\servers\sdk\samples\ftpd.
>> I'm basing what I'm saying after looking at the ftpd.cpp file's
>> ReadVirtualRoots() function.  If you still have problems let me know 
>> where
>> things seem to be going wrong.
>>
>> -- 
>> John Spaith
>> Software Design Engineer, Windows CE
>> Microsoft Corporation
>>
>> Check out the new CE Networking Team Blog at 
>> http://blogs.msdn.com/cenet/.
>>
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>> rights.
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>> rights
>> reserved.
>>
>> <user@domain.invalid> wrote in message
>> news:uzWE$mcFFHA.2832@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
>> > Hi all
>> >
>> > I'm having problems configuring the ftp server in Windows CE .NET 4.2
>> > Platform Builder.
>> > I edited the platform.reg as follows:
>> > [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\COMM\FTPD]
>> > "IsEnabled"=dword:1
>> > "AllowAnonymous"=dword:1
>> > "AllowAnonymousUpload"=dword:1
>> > "AllowAnonymousVroots"=dword:1
>> > "UseAuthentication"=dword:0
>> > "DefaultDir"="\\compactflash\\ftproot"
>> >
>> > Now I want to define in the project.reg two virtual directories for the
>> > ftp server:
>> > ;Virtual roots for ftp server
>> > [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Comm\FTPD\VROOTS\\compactflash\\ftproot\ftp]
>> > @="\\CompactFlash\\ftp"
>> >
>> > [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Comm\FTPD\VROOTS\\compactflash\\ftproot\project]
>> > @="\\CompactFlash\\project"
>> >
>> >
>> > Accessing the ftproot directory works fine but I can't access the 
>> > virtual
>> > directories.
>> > I have the feeling they aren't there. Am I missing something? Thanks 
>> > for
>> > your help in advance!
>> >
>> > Regards
>> > Roger N.
>> >
>>
>>
>>
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