Confguring FTP Service (IIS)

CONFIGURING FTP SERVICE (IIS)

ITP4112 Network and Virtualized Systems
Administration Project

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 LESSON INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOMES
On completion of the lesson, students are expected to:
Know how to install the FTP Service of IIS.

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Know how to configure the FTP Service of IIS.

Note: the full name of IIS is Internet Information Service

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 OVERVIEW
As with the web server service of IIS, the FTP service can be u
sed on the public Internet or for your private intranet.
Hosting an FTP site on your IIS server can provide the users o
n your network with either files that they need or a place to st

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ore files that are shared for a specific project.
Supplying a repository of downloadable files might be import
ant as a service that you provide to public web users.
The FTP service of IIS can be added when you install the Web
Server (IIS) role.
To add FTP service to an existing server configured for IIS, use
the Add Roles Wizard, which can be started via the Server Ma
nager. In the Add Role Services window, click the FTP Server c
heck box. 3

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 INSTALL FTP SERVICE OF IIS

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 ADD A FTP SITE
To create a FTP site, select the Sites node in the Connections p
ane of the Server Manager after selecting the IIS Manger node.
Then, click the Add FTP Site in the Actions pane.
Then, enter a unique, friendly name for the site. In the Physical
Path box, type the path where you want to store the site conte

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nt.

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 ADD A FTP SITE
In the Binding area, set the IP address, and the port. Select an
IP address for the site in the drop-down list or type one.
If you want to have clients connect to the site by hostname (d
omain name) rather than the IP address, provide the hostna

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me for the site (e.g. ftp.cwcim.org).

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 ADD A FTP SITE
Select the type of Authentication supported by the FTP
site, and what users are allowed to access the site with
either Read and/or Write permissions.

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The new site will be added
to the Sites list in the IIS
Manager.

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 CONFIGURE FTP SITE DEFAULTS
Global settings for all the FTP sites on your IIS server.
To set these defaults, select the Sites node in the Connectio
ns pane of the IIS Manager, and click the Set FTP Site Defaul

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ts in the Actions pane.

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 CONFIGURE FTP SITE DEFAULTS
To access the sa
me settings for a
specific site, sele

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ct the site in the
Connections tree
, and then click A
dvanced Settings
in the Actions pa
ne.

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 CONFIGURE FTP SITE FEATURES
Settings you make for a specific site override the s
ettings that you made at the global level.

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 CONFIGURE FTP SITE FEATURES
You are provided with a set of icons in the Details pane. This i
s the default Features View, which provides a task-based syste
m for configuring specific settings required for a particular FT

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P site.
The settings available for a FTP site range from authentication
to directory browsing to the SSL settings for HTTPS protocol.
Some of these settings are quite straightforward and are basi
cally enabled by default.
To access a settings page, double-click the icon in the Features

View.
All the settings in relation to a specific FTP site can also be set
at the server level. Then, the settings are inherited by each FT
P site on the server. To do this, click the server name in the Co 12
nnections pane and then use the FTP icons similarly.

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 CONFIGURE FTP SITE FEATURES
You can use Windows Explorer to quickly populate a FT
P site with files.
Any files placed in the FTP root folder (e.g. C:\inetpub\f

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tphome) are available to your users.
The Read permission gives the users the capability to d

ownload files from the FTP site.

If you also want to enable users to upload files to the F
TP site using their web browser or an FTP client, you m
ust enable the Write permission on the site. You can d
o this by double clicking the FTP Authorization Rule ico
n in the Details pane and selecting Edit in the Actions p
ane after selecting the corresponding rule. 13

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