Serv-U FTP server for NT

Here you are really creating a user name, telling the system where the home directory is for this user and what can they do there. You don't have to worry about an IP number here. The FTP server answers for all IPs on the server.

Doubleclick the U on the task bar.  The screen above will be shown. Click the users icon as shown above.

Click the NEW button and enter the user name. Remember always use the same name throughout the account setup. Stay consistrant so no matter if you are looking at the console manager for IIS, Frontpage extensions or here you always see the same user name. Also keep in mind if you used a different name here, the customer would have two login names as it would require a different one here for FTP. Enter the user name then click the button for the home directory. The browse window opens. All of our hosted sites are in webserver so I clicked it.

I entered the password and of course browsed for the home directory. Now we need to setup path access rules.  Click the add buttom near the bottom of the screen.

Again you can browse or or just type in the path.  It is the same as the home directory. Click all the check boxes except for the Execute box.

Click the Misc button on the top right. Click the check box as seen above. What this does is when the users logs in with FTP it will show the path as "\" for root directory of their account. If not checked it will show c:\webserver\ etc, etc. Enter 15 in the idle timeout.  We don't want people going to bed and leaving an FTP session active.  This will not disconnect if the user is moving data, only if they do nothing for 15 minutes. Click ok to exit.

Next, click the Quota button on the right. Check the enable disk quota box. This is an NT 1 account so I enter the value for 50 megs of space. Note that this feature is almost useless. If a user uploads the site with FrontPage there is no way for this to know about that.  In fact the only time it updates is if you return here and click the Calculate Current button. But when the user FTPs to the site is does display a message in their FTP software. You can update it and the customer can see the amount of disk space. Yes NT is far behind Unix in a disk quota system. Click ok to close the quota window, then click the Store button on the right. Close all of this you are done with FTP.