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[TcM]

Well, I never hosted with a Windows Server, and I doubt I will.. unless ToastedPenguin changed to Windows :irritated:

Anyways, my question is.. does it offer something similar to chmod?

[MeTh0Dz]

Cacls.exe

[morefood2001]

The equivalent in windows server is security settings. I'm not entirely sure though if its settable via ftp, so later tonight, I will install IIS onto my server 2003 machine and find out for sure :)

[morefood2001]

After installing IIS and M$ FTP server to my enterprise server, I attempted to connect through filezilla. Directory permissions are always 0, so with M$ servers, to get 644, you are required to use either IIS or the filesystem permissions to get permissions on your files. I also noticed there is a web control panel for iis, but you need to have admin access to get to it.

One nice thing about FTP is that it is integrated into Active Directory making it super easy to add ftp accounts since ftp will connect the user to their home directory. Other than that, I prefer unix ftp / web hosting better.

Anyone want me to write a tutorial on installing PHP / MySQL to a windows server in IIS? Its a challenge to do because both generally don't work on install like they are supposed to, especially together.

[TcM]

So you can't set file permissions via FTP?

@Methodz: I think if you offer that to your clients the only way to use that is via telnet or ssh right?

[morefood2001]

Status:	Resolving address of mthsdc12

Status:	Connecting to 192.168.0.12:21...

Status:	Connection established, waiting for welcome message...

Response:	220 Microsoft FTP Service

Command:	USER admin

Response:	331 Password required for admin.

Command:	PASS **********

Response:	230 User admin logged in.

Status:	Connected

Status:	Retrieving directory listing...

Command:	PWD

Response:	257 "/" is current directory.

Status:	Directory listing successful

Status:	Set permissions of '/index.htm' to ' '

Command:	SITE CHMOD   index.htm

Response:	500 'SITE CHMOD   index.htm': command not understood

That is filezilla from connecting to the server then attempting to chmod the file.

As for the tutorial, I have nothing better to do for a bit, so I'm going to make it now (besides, I need php installed :P )

[TcM]

Great! Thanks man :D

Yeah, I guess I can spread some rep... ;)

[MeTh0Dz]

Yeah TcM, unless you write a program that interfaces back to one of those options. But with only that accessibility.

[TcM]

Hmm.. so FTP chmod won't work.. is there any possibility to patch or whatever the FTP server and instead translate the chmod commands to cacls.exe command?

It's not that convenient setting file permissions through SSH...

[MeTh0Dz]

Of course it's possible. It's just deciding how to go about it.

[morefood2001]

I don't think windows has ssh. Thats a linux thing ;) I am not sure, but perhaps filezilla ftp server will do the trick.

I also remember somewhere that windows automatically sets permissions so it doesn't require chmod stuff, although I'm not sure how accurate that is.