FTP server setup--IIS

Setting up an FTP server is actually quite simple. First of all, to ensure that your machine can access the Internet, and there is no less than ADSL 512Kbps network speed. Second, the hardware performance should meet your needs. Finally, you need to install the software on the FTP server. There are many such software, you can use Microsoft's IIS (Internet Information Server), you can also use professional software. Different software provides different functions, different adaptation requirements and operating systems. In general, the minimum system requirements are as follows:

CPU: PIII 450MHz or more

Memory: 256MB SDRAM or more

Bandwidth: ADSL 512Kbps or more

As for operation System, Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP can be used, if the performance and security requirements of the server is very low, you can use Windows 98 and Windows Me. In this article, if there is no special explanation, Windows XP Professional is used as the operating system. The setup and settings of the FTP server under the other operating systems are similar.

First, use IIS to set up

If you just want to build a small number of simultaneous online users with no more than 10 FTP servers, and will not carry out large-volume data transmission at the same time, you can use IIS 5.0 is set up as a server software (IIS is only available for Windows NT/2000/XP operating systems).

1. Installation

Windows XP does not install IIS components by default. You need to add them manually. Go to the Control Panel, find "Add/Remove Programs", open and select "Add/Remove Windows Components". In the "Windows Components Wizard" window that pops up, select the "Internet Information Services (IIS)" item. The "√" background color before this option is grayed out because Windows XP does not install the FTP service component by default. Then click "Details" in the lower right corner, in the "Internet Information Services (IIS)" window that pops up, find "File Transfer Protocol (FTP) Service", select it and confirm.

A reboot is required after installation. Windows NT/2000 and Windows XP are installed in the same way.

2. Settings

After the computer restarts, the FTP server starts running, but some settings are required. Click "Start → All Programs → Administrative Tools → Internet Information Service", enter the "Internet Information Service" window, find the "Default FTP Site", right click the mouse, and select "Properties" in the pop-up context menu. In "Properties", we can set the name, IP, port, access account, FTP directory location of the FTP server, messages received when the user enters FTP, and so on.

1) FTP site basic information

Enter the "FTP site" tab, where the "Description" option is the name of the FTP site, used to call your server, you can fill it at will, For example, "My small station"; "IP address" is the IP of the server. The system defaults to "All unassigned ", generally no need to change, but if there are two or more IP addresses in the drop-down list box. It is best to specify the public IP address; "TCP port" is generally still set to the default 21 port; "Connection" option is used to set the maximum number of users allowed to connect to the server at the same time; "Connection timeout" is used to set a waiting time If the user connected to the server has been online for more than the waiting time without any action, the server will automatically disconnect from the user.

2) Setting the account and its permissions

Many FTP sites require the user to enter a username and password to log in. This username and password are called accounts. Different users can use the same account to access the site. Multiple accounts can be set up on the same site. Each account can have different permissions, such as uploading and downloading, while others only allow downloading.

3) Security Settings

Enter the "Security Account" tab, there are two words "Allow anonymous connection" and "Allow anonymous connection only". The default is "Allow anonymous connection". The FTP server provides anonymous login. "Allow only anonymous connections" is used to prevent users from accessing accounts with administrative rights. After selecting, even the Administrator account cannot be logged in. FTP can only be managed by the server for "local access". As for the "FTP Site Operator" option, it is used to add or delete accounts with certain permissions on this FTP server. Unlike other professional FTP server software, IIS manages accounts based on Windows user accounts. It is not allowed to set the accounts that the FTP server allows to access. To add or delete accounts that are allowed to access, you must first come with the operating system. In the "Computer Management" section of the Administrative Tools, set the Windows user account and then add or remove it via the "FTP Site Operator" option in the "Security Account" tab. However, for Windows 2000 and Windows XP Professional, the system does not provide the "FTP Site Operator" account add and delete function, only provides an administrative account for the Administrator.

Tip: Anonymous login generally does not require the user to enter the username and password to log in successfully. If necessary, you can use "anonymous" as the username and use any email address as the password to log in.

4) Set the user login directory

Finally set the FTP home directory (that is, the initial location after the user logs in to FTP), enter the "Home Directory" tab, select the user in the "Local Path" Landing directory.