At work have tens of websites running on IIS6 on Win2003 and running on a dedicated server. Only we have FTP access so we can easily make web changes via dreamweaver. Things have worked perfectly for years. All of a sudden FTP connection will not access any file or folder that contains the work 'root' in the filename, which is causing major hassle, so because structure is something like;
G:\websites\localUser\websitefolder\webroot\
then we can not easily access the webroot bit.
If I create a dummy folder tree not even linked to a website, like:
G:\websites\localUser\level1\level2\level3\level4\root\level6
then I can ftp down as far as 'root' and then ftp program will crash out, be it dreamweaver, IE, Firefox, wsftp, etc.
It makes no sense at all.
There is just one FTP account whose home folder is the G:\websites and permissions are set at that level with all subfolders and subfiles inheriting permissions.
What is weird is that this problem only occurs under the 'localUser' folder. Other folders not under that level don't have a problem, even folders called webroot.
So basically is there anything that someone may have changed that could filter ftp traffic by the partial name of a file?
PS we have not tried the easy option of rebooting the server as that would cause clients to ring up and complain, so would rather not if at all possible, but maybe we should and hope it fixes the problem. We have restarted IIS and FTP services though but to no avail.
G:\websites\localUser\websitefolder\webroot\
then we can not easily access the webroot bit.
If I create a dummy folder tree not even linked to a website, like:
G:\websites\localUser\level1\level2\level3\level4\root\level6
then I can ftp down as far as 'root' and then ftp program will crash out, be it dreamweaver, IE, Firefox, wsftp, etc.
It makes no sense at all.
There is just one FTP account whose home folder is the G:\websites and permissions are set at that level with all subfolders and subfiles inheriting permissions.
What is weird is that this problem only occurs under the 'localUser' folder. Other folders not under that level don't have a problem, even folders called webroot.
So basically is there anything that someone may have changed that could filter ftp traffic by the partial name of a file?
PS we have not tried the easy option of rebooting the server as that would cause clients to ring up and complain, so would rather not if at all possible, but maybe we should and hope it fixes the problem. We have restarted IIS and FTP services though but to no avail.
