Hi Lauren,

The very nature of FTP is insecure because the passwords used for
authentication are sent in the clear.  Your best bet would be to use
some type of third-party FTP server/daemon that allows you to use FTP
over SSL.  Currently IIS (v5.0 and 6.0) does not support this natively.
If you are stuck with IIS, then you could only allow FTP access via a
VPN. From there you can lock the site directories down using NTFS
permissions  All in all there isn't a whole lot IIS can do natively to
"secure" an FTP site.

Just my $.02

Ryan
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Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 1:58 PM
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Subject: FTP on IIS

I'm preparing to build a new FTP server using IIS (or an IIS server
using FTP???  I'm not sure).  Anyway, I was wondering if anyone could
recommend some good sources on how to lock it down.  I need to configure
it for an FTP site that anyone can get to and one that is password
protected.  Thanks in advance!

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