Who can perform this task?
  • Domain administrators
  • Service provider administrators
  • Service provider CSRs
  • Reseller administrators
  • Reseller CSRs
  • Organization administrators
  • Organization CSRs
  • End users

To set up an FTP site for an organization

Step 1. Create an FTP site

  1. If you are on the Create FTP Site page of the organization for which you want to create a new File Transfer Protocol (FTP) site, skip to step 2. If not, navigate to this page.
  2. How?

    1. On the Delegated Administration Console menu bar, click Manage Organization.
    2. If you are already in the organization for which you want to create an File Transfer Protocol (FTP) site, skip this step. If the organization for which you want to create an FTP site appears in the Organization Name list, click its name. Otherwise, on the navigation bar, click the navigation button Click to navigate quickly in this organization.
    3. In the left navigation pane, click Manage Services.
    4. Click Internet Services.
    5. In the left navigation pane, click Create FTP Site.
  3. In Site name on the Create FTP Site page, type the name of the FTP site.
  4. In Disk space (MBs), type the amount of disk space in megabytes (MB) to allocate to the FTP site, and then click Save.
  5. Update Complete appears in the upper left section of the IIS Summary page, and the new FTP site appears in the Site Name list.

Step 2. Verify FTP site identification

  1. In the Site Name list, click the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) site you just created.
  2. In the left navigation pane, click Site Identification.
  3. The Site Identification page displays the status of the FTP site (started or stopped), a description of the FTP site, and the site's TCP port number and Internet Protocol (IP) address.

  4. Verify that the site description is correct, or edit it if necessary, and then click Save.
  5. If you saved any changes, Update Complete appears in the upper left section of the Site Identification page.

Step 3. Configure security settings

  1. In the left navigation pane, click Security.
  2. Select the check boxes of the permissions that you want to apply to this File Transfer Protocol (FTP) site, as described in the following table, and then click Save.
  3. Item Description
    Allow anonymous connections Allows users to log on with the user name "anonymous."
    Allow only anonymous connections Prevents users from logging on with Windows 2000 user names. With this option enabled, no user account other than the anonymous account can log on.

Step 4. Configure Home Directory settings

  1. In the left navigation pane, click Home Directory.
  2. Select the check boxes of the permissions that you want to apply to this File Transfer Protocol (FTP) site, as described in the following table, and then click Save.
  3. Item Description
    Read Allow users to read or download files stored in the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) site folder.
    Write Allow users to upload files to the FTP site folder. The folder must have the appropriate access control lists (ACLs) to allow this.
    Log visits Allow the Web server to log visits to this FTP site.

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