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connecting to my FTP site on Windows Server 2003

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gib999

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May 18, 2005
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Hello,

I just had a simple question about logging onto my FTP service through localhost. I've got Windows Server 2003, and I went through the IIS Manager to setup a Default FTP site. I'm trying to start from scratch so I deleted all existing FTP sites before I created the one I called "Default FTP". Anyway, I right clicked "FTP Sites", chose New -> FTP Site..., assigned it the 127.0.0.1 IP address and TCP port 21, chose Isolate users, selected my path to be c:\Inetpub\ftproot (which is set to shared), and checked both read and write. Then, to set my username and password, I right click on "Default FTP", chose properties, click the "Security Accounts" tab, change my username and password to what I want, leave "Allow anonymous connections" on and "Allow only anonymous connections" off, and press OK (confirming my password).

Now, if I want to connect to my FTP site, what do I do? In IE, I tried typing in "ftp://localhost/" in the URL field, but when it asks me for a user name and password, I type in what I set the username and password to, but it says I was rejected. Same thing happens when I try "ftp://127.0.0.1/". I also have Ipswitch WS_FTP Professional, and I tried to create a connection called "My Server" with the host name "localhost". When I try to logon using my username and password, again it says I was reject. Same thing happens when I try setting the host name to "127.0.0.1".

So my question is: Am I trying to connect to my FTP server in the right way?
 
I've also been working with Server 2003 FTP permissions, so far I found my login only works if I use domain\username, username on it's own would not log on.
 
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