FileZilla FTP Server for Windows (Guide)

**Shovel F** · 01-02-2009

Your screen should look like Screen 5.04. If not simply: Open the admin interface -> Click Edit -> Click Groups -> Click Speed Limits

Screen 5.04:

1. Click "IP Filter"(left side of Screen 5.04)

Your screen should now look like Screen 5.05.

Screen 5.05:

This is where you can setup IP filters for the group.

2. Click 'OK'

**Shovel F** · 01-02-2009

Multiple Directories for the group require the use of aliases.

Once you have given the group the directories you want them to have access to you will need to setup the aliases.

Screen 5.10 shows a group that has multiple directories.

Screen 5.10:

Notice: The big 'H' next to the directory designates that directory as being the home directory.
The home directory is the directory the user will see when they login.

1. Right Click on the secondary directory.

2. Select "Edit aliases"

A box will appear like the one in the following image:

3. Put in the path of your home directory followed by a \ <insert a name here>
In the case of the image above the home directory is "E:\Documents"
I am going to use test for my name

In my case the input looks like this:

4. Click 'OK'

That will make the secondary directory show up like a folder in the users home directory allowing them access to the other by navigating into the directory(double clicking on it) when they are logged in.

If you have more that one outside directory you want the user to have access to then simple repeat steps 1-4, giving each secondary directory a different name.
Example:

Code:

E:\Documents\test

on the next one I used:

Code:

E:\Documents\Programming

Here is a picture of what they look like finished: View Me

5. Go on to the next part of the group section

**Shovel F** · 02-10-2009

You want to set up group permissions because it will be the easiest to manage, however you wish to have one user in the group have a different access level for one of the directories.

For This Example I am going to give a user write permissions for the 'E:\test' directory.

Screen 5.12:

1. Add the user to the group.. if you haven't all ready.

2. On the filezilla server interface: Edit -> Users

3. Select the user.

4. Click Shared folders on the part of the user box.

5. Click Add browse and select the folder you wanted the user to have different permissions on.

6. Set the permissions.

7. Click Ok.

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Problem(As asked by a User):

I've ran into a situation where I want to share directories to a group of users with a set of permissions, and give elevated privileges to specific users. I created a group named "Dev" and added homedir, directory1, directory2 and directory3 with Read privileges to the group for all directories (and homedir as the Home Directory for all).

Since I wanted to use heritage for the privileges, I also created 3 users with "Dev" membership as user1, user2 and user3. When I log in and ask for the list from any user, I get:

directory1
directory2
directory3

The second step was to give individual privileges to specific users. As you might have guessed, I wanted to give user1 write privilege to directory1, user2 write privilege to directory2 and user3 write privilege to directory3. To do so, I created in each personal user profile a directory alias the same way I created it for the group except that I added write permission. When I go back to the listing as user1, I now get the following:

directory1
directory1
directory2
directory3

(And so on: user2 has two directory2, and user3 as two directory3). However, changing to "directory1" from "user1" account effectively works and write privilege is given as specified and overridden by the specific user settings, while directory2 and directory3 only have read privilege. Should the server, in this situation, detect the collision of aliases and only display the effective final overridden directory alias ? Maybe I'm doing it wrong; this idea of doing heritage comes from the way of functioning of Serv-U file server.

Thank you !

Solution:

Remove the alias from the USER shared folder settings.

Code:

Group(Shared Folders):
   Directory   Alias
H   F:\FTP
   F:\d1   F:\FTP\d1
   F:\d2   F:\FTP\d2
   F:\d3   F:\FTP\d3


User:
   Directory   Alias
   F:\d1

The the settings above work. Effectively d1 of user overwrites d1 of group.

**DestroyerDust** · 01-17-2011

Very good thread.

Since this is from 2009 the image links are broken. Today/Tomorrow I will get up-to-date photos.

I followed this thread for my server (That uses Windows Server 2003) and it works perfect.

Thanks!
-DestroyerDust