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strange ftp issue within IIS 6

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r8j8t

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May 11, 2007
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Hello
I have weird problem here:
We have a ftp server which is running many virtual directories under default ftp directory. The server is win2003r2 with IIS6.
The ftp accounts are configured with home direcotry as d:/ftproot/ftpdirectories/"nameof ftp account" with a folder with their name created under that path.

Problem: I have virtual ftp directory say test which has home direcotry pointed to d:/ftproot/ftpdirectories/test. There is an user account beta which has write access to that test folder and any folders within it. The admin and system has default full control on this test folder.

When i log in to test ftp account using beta user and password i can logon without any problem but when i run dir command i dont see any folder or content under test folder.
I ran pwd command and got "/" root as home directory but i shoudl see "/test" as home directory.

In order to test I logon to other ftp account called LMG on this server using user account LMG and password. When I ran dir command there i could see subfolders under LMG folder. Also pwd command gave"/LMG" as home folder.
I want to put some stuff onto the Test account but could not due to home directory mismatch.

I am really confused as both test and LMG have exact same setting on their respective ftp account and also NTFS permissions are similar. Still this weird problem remains.
Any help or pointer will be highly appreciated...Please help :(
 
Ok I have figured it out. I was trying to use user account to access my virtual directory where the name of that account was diff form virtual direcotry name. Therefore my home direcotry was showing as"/" rather than "/test".
I changed the name of my vitual directory to LMG which is an user account created to ftp data into the server through scripts. And i created a folder called test under the LMG folder and pointed the home direcotry for my LMG ftp direcotry as d:/ftproot/ftpdirectories/LMG.
Now I can logon as LMG and the scripts can put data under the test folder. Job done
 
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