Good info! Thanks. Ray
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Melissa C. Winans Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 1:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [WS_FTP Forum] Why should I go with WS_FTP Server? [vs NT] At 03/02/2002 12:48 PM -0500, Ray Smith wrote: >I've been using IIS 4 and IIS 5 for a few years and I don't think there >is another way to store ftp users in NT - that's the way I've done it >when I had to. Ray is correct; any logon ID must be set up as a Windows NT user ID. To limit the risk, one should always make it a **local**, rather than a domain ID. >NT's ftp service is widely known to be unsecure. MS has >never put many resources into developing it. I'm not a Microsoft basher >(usually) but I do avoid using IIS ftp server. Although IIS is not secure by itself, this can be fixed by downloading and installing the Windows version of a freeware security utility named "SafeTP", available from: http://safetp.cs.berkeley.edu/ The server utility works with any "legacy" FTP server, including IIS. There is a matching client utility, available in Windows and Unix (but not, alas, Mac) versions, which works in combination with whatever FTP client processes it finds on your computer, including standard FTP clients such as WS_FTP and FTP processes embedded in other applications (such as PowerPoint, Netscape, and Dreamweaver). ********************************************************************** Melissa C. Winans, Senior LAN Administrator ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Texas Memorial Museum of Science & History Phone: 512-232-4263 University of Texas at Austin Fax: 512-471-6090 JJPRC, 10100 Burnet Rd, Bldg 122 http:\\www.utexas.edu\depts\tmm\ Austin, Texas, 78758-4445 Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list.
