3.0 Tutorial

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.

  1. 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.

     

  2. we setup the user to see relative paths, prevent him from seeing hidden files and so on

     

  3. 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',

     

  4. 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)

  5. 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.