In this little tutorial, I will show you how to setup an FTP server in about 1 minute. I'm assuming that you've already read the add user paragraph.
- First we need to open the user account window and create a new account; we will call it 'Anonymous', no login/pass is defined to let everybody connect without restrictions. We give our new user access to our ftp root located at 'c:\ftproot' which is empty for the moment, and as we think about sharing a cdrom drive, we share 'j:\' to later define a shortcut to this drive.
- we setup the user to see relative paths, prevent him from seeing hidden files and so on
- to give our user access to our cdrom drive 'j:\' we simply create a windows shortcut (.lnk) in 'c:\ftproot\', and we check 'Links/Dir to add to directories', 'Treat as virtual directories' & 'Resolve windows shortcuts',
- start your favorite FTP Client and log in to your server at 'localhost' or '127.0.0.1' with any login/pass. You should see the following:
(note the 'd' for directory)or if you checked 'treat as links' & unchecked 'Relative Path':
(note the 'l' for link)
- a click on 'CD-ROM' brings you to:
or if you checked 'treat as links' & unchecked 'Relative Path':
That's all for my first tutorial, I hope I have solved some problems.