General MS FTP Question

I¬ve never used MS FTP in a hosting environment. As I¬ve always done everything manually, I liked being able to create a new user and explicitly point them to thier WWW directory and deny them access to anything above it... WARFTP has a function called "Freeze Mount Point" .. could never figure out how to do that type of thing in MS FTP so I abandoned it back in the NT 4 days.

We have some clients that need FTP access to their \www directory.. and then give their developers/sub contractors FTP access to \www\projects.. or clients access to \www\clients\clientname for uploading assets etc..

Can this be done in a HC environment?

The question isn¬t exactly clear. When you say "above" the www directory do you mean hierarchically? There is not much above www (within the webadmin¬s folder structure).

If you need to get granular about directory access try using serv-u. There is more control over users and directory access.

E:\Websites
--- \projects
--- \project1
--- compsheet.html
--- videodemo.html
--- \project2
--- \clientsite1
--- \clientsite2
--- \www
--- \images
--- \flash
--- default.aspx
--- \uploads
--- \stats
--- \DB

Our developers (group) would need FTP access to \Websites

Client2 developer would need FTP to \Websites\clientsite2\uploads

Subcontractor would need FTP to \Websites\Projects\Project1

but client2 developer and subcontractor wouldn¬t be able to browse above their given directories...

that¬s the kinda thing I do in WARFTP now..
create a specific user.. dictate their "home" within the directory structure.. lock them in there

or.. create a new user in our developer group.. which defaults to \websites

just wondering if I can go in and do specific stuff like that in an HC environment. MS FTP always scared me to death because of it¬s "open" nature.

I don¬t think this can be done in HC itself, but you can do it in MS FTP.

If you already have the useraccount, just create a Virtual Directory with the username then give it the path to the folder you want them to access.

I did this myself so I have full access to my server.

This is leaning towards off topic, since you said I¬d have to do it manually.. and I hate to sound this ignorant, but I¬ve never used MS FTP.. so.. bear with me.

So when we are trying to close a deal and I need to give 2 developers (Joe Asp and Flash Kid) quick access to www.somesite.com/somedir/somesubdir but I want to lock them into /somsubdir ... how do I do that?

What about if I need to do /somesubdir/joea and /somesubdir/flashk and lock them in there..?

You will have to create a login ¬joea¬ and give it NTFS access on /somesubdir/joea folder. Then create a virtual folder in your default ftp site and give it name ¬joea¬. This will allow user joea to login and directly land in his designated folder.

Useful information about how to setup and work with ms ftp:

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