FTP authentication problems

[CoconutSteve69]

Hey ya'll,

 

At work I have to set up a small LAN for a small exercise, so no internet. We are using old government Windows laptop that work fine, but their image is more restrictive than a regular consumer laptop. I am an administrator so I am able to change anything. I just need to know where to look. 

 

So I set up an FTP for people to drop off and edit documents, but I am unable to authenticate. I made a rule that any user can access the FTP, but I haven't had any luck. Seeing if it was user error, I followed the same steps I found online on my computer and was able to get the FTP up. I suspect that there is a group policy that is preventing me from authenticating from the local user accounts bank, but I don't know where to look. I am open to what anyone thinks on here.

 

Thanks.

[mariushm]

Is it a requirement for people to login using the windows user name and passwords, to have local users etc etc or you could create users manually for each user?

 

If you can create accounts for every person manually, then I'd suggest installing Filezilla FTP Server, it's a freeware/open source ftp server: https://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=server

 

If needed, add rules in the windows firewall to let the service connect to internet - the installer will do it for you.

 

For example, let's say you want each person to be able to browse the contents of a folder C:\Public as a read only folder and that they should also be able to upload files into a particular folder that can not be accessed by other users (a private upload for each user)

You can start by creating a folder that will just be a base folder for all the accounts, for example C:\FTP

For every user account, you can create a folder inside this folder, for example C:\FTP\JohnSmith

 

Let's say you want user JohnSmith to upload to D:\Files\JohnSmith and that he should be able to browse the files from C:\Public.

 

So you can simply go in User Accounts, create the username JohnSmith and set a password, then go in folders and add the first folder, C:\FTP\JohnSmith.

That's your base (home) folder.

Then, you add C:\Public , right click on it and select "Set alias" (or something like that) and type there "/Public" , then check the options to be able to go through subfolders, read files, basically everything but write and delete, because you want that folder to be read only.

Now, you can add D:\Files\JohnSmith and right click on entry and select "Set alias" and type there "/Uploads" then check everything because you want to give user full control to upload files in that folder.

 

Note : it's important to be  / character in the alias for this to work.

 

So now, when user connects with the username and password, he'll see two folders : Public and Uploads .. when he enters one of the folders, the ftp server software works with either C:\Public or D:\Files\JohnSmith folders.

 

The folder C:\FTP\JohnSmith is just a sort of placeholder, that will remain empty, it's never used.

 

[CoconutSteve69]

Thanks for the reply!

 

I'll see about Filezilla (easier is better!). Thank you for the detailed response. I'll try the Windows way too. Really appreciate it.