FTP server limitations

[Guest]

Hello

We are currently utilizing Windows 2000 FTP Server for our departments and
their outside vendors to share files.
We have built several Virtual Directories and created the realted local user
accounts on the server. We will be building several more Virtual Directories
and creating additional local user accounts and I was wondering what the
maximum limits are per server for each? Are there any additional limitations
that we may need to consider?

Thank you for your assistance.

Mark Clark

 

[Herb Martin]

Probably none that you will encounter unless you have
many thousands of users -- then it is as likely to be
problem with large directories as with FTP service.

(But if you have a number in mind you really should
mention it.)

Also, you can avoid Virtual Directories in FTP (now)
by using ReparsePoints/JunctionPoints as long as the
destination is local to the same machine.

This way the only limitations will be those of the
underlying file system (NTFS.)

Virtual Directories were evented before Junction
points existing in NTFS.

 

[Jeff Cochran]

We are currently utilizing Windows 2000 FTP Server for our departments and
their outside vendors to share files.
We have built several Virtual Directories and created the realted local user
accounts on the server. We will be building several more Virtual Directories
and creating additional local user accounts and I was wondering what the
maximum limits are per server for each? Are there any additional limitations
that we may need to consider?

No built in maximums on either.

Jeff

 

[Leythos]

Hello

We are currently utilizing Windows 2000 FTP Server for our departments and
their outside vendors to share files.
We have built several Virtual Directories and created the realted local user
accounts on the server. We will be building several more Virtual Directories
and creating additional local user accounts and I was wondering what the
maximum limits are per server for each? Are there any additional limitations
that we may need to consider?

There are no real limitations, except bandwidth and CPU load.

If you are creating an account for each vendor/person, consider running
a third-party FTP server like FileZilla Server. We run it on stand-alone
Windows 2003 servers so that we don't have to deal with MS FTP and
creating accounts in NT. We also control up and down stream, connections
per individual user, directory entry point(s), and it works in active or
passive mode. We've had several FileZilla FTP Servers running non-stop
for more than 6 months with LOTS of users and it's never hung-up yet.