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Multiple FTP users
Name: issolla Date: October 30, 2006 at 03:33:16 Pacific OS: Win 2003 CPU/Ram: 512 Product: Assembled
Comment:
I have FTP server. I have created a public IP and user are accessing this. But in this can I create multiple logins with the same pulblic IP? Or at any point of time only one user can be logged in? I need to use with multiple logins simelteneously. Pl. tell me how to do this?
Name: StuartS Date: October 30, 2006 at 03:43:06 Pacific
Reply:
Which FTP server are you using?
Most FTP server allow you to configure the maximum number of concurrent connections. Check the instructions for the server software.
Stuart
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Response Number 2
Name: Michael J (by mjdamato) Date: October 30, 2006 at 09:23:45 Pacific
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"can I create multiple logins with the same pulblic IP"
That makes no sense. The puiblic IP is the external IP address of the FTP server - that has no correlation to the login accounts.
If you are using IIS in 2003 for the FTP server you can configure ananymous access and/or configure individual access. For example, you could configure ananymous access for people to download but then configure individual accounts where login is required to upload files.
To configure acess just right-click on the ftp folder being shared and edit the settings ont he security tab. There may be a way to create ftp accounts w/o having to create accounts on the server, but I haven't needed to do that myself, so I don't know how that would be done.
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