Win2000 FTP server "user <NNN> cannot login, home directory inaccessible"

[Tore Uthus]

Hi all.



Struck into a problem lately.

Have 2 W2K SP2 servers running.

One with SQL and the other one with Terminal Server.



Had to set up both with ftpserver and one of the servers worked great and
the other didn't.

The one with FTP server installed (W2K SQL server) worked ok.

The one that I had to install FTP (W2K Terminal server) worked not so god.



An administrator can log on to both of the W2K ftp servers.

An ordinary user can only log into one of them (the SQL server).

On the W2K Terminal server I get " user <NNN> cannot login, home directory
inaccessible"



Have tried the Microsoft Knowledge Base without any luck.



Have anyone seem something like this?



Best regards

Tore

 

[Jeff Cochran]

Hi all.

"All" is right. You missed the alt.britney.spears group, but hit a
whole bunch of other irrelevant groups. Also seem to have missed the
microsoft.public.inetserver.iss.ftp group, where this would be on
topic and read by people who can easily answer it.

On the W2K Terminal server I get " user <NNN> cannot login, home directory
inaccessible"

Dumb question: Does the user's home directory exist and does the user
have rights to it?

Post in the FTP group mentioned above, with full error message. And
look at:

http://www.iisfaq.com/default.aspx?View=P14&P=145

Jeff

 

[Gino]

Per your description this is a 530 error message, user <username> cannot log
in, home directory inaccessable. Login failed.
This problem occurs when the home directory of the FTP site does not exist
or the user does not have Read permissions to the home directory.
Start the Internet Service Manager, right-click the FTP site folder,
and then left click Properties.
On the Home Directory tab, verify that the Local Path listed is valid, and
that the Read check box is checked, click OK.
Using Windows Explorer, locate the folder listed in the Local Path setting
you verified Service Manager.
Right-click the folder, then left click Properties and then click the
Security tab. Confirm that the required user has at least Read permissions
on this folder.
( Also make sure that the user has "Logon Locally" and "Logon Over The
Network" rights in Local Security Policy.)

 

[Mark Mancini]

just a reminder.....FTP sends logon info as CLEAR TEXT. Consider sharepoint
or TSdropcopy to movefiles to the server.