KB195259 - FTP Site Mapped to a Remote Share May Have Access Problems

Article ID: 195259

Article Last Modified on 6/22/2005

Microsoft Internet Information Server 4.0

This article was previously published under Q195259

We strongly recommend that all users upgrade to Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) version 6.0 running on Microsoft Windows Server 2003. IIS 6.0 significantly increases Web infrastructure security. For more information about IIS security-related topics, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/prodtech/IIS.mspx

SYMPTOMS

After creating a virtual directory for FTP access that points to a remote Universal Naming Convention (UNC) path, you may have a problem performing a GET request. You may receive an Access Denied message, even though the account used to connect has read and write access.

WORKAROUND

To work around this problem, grant permissions to the UNC path for the Windows NT account that is used for anonymous access to the FTP site (typically the IUSR_<computer_name> account).

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Internet Information Server version 4.0.

MORE INFORMATION

For more information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

172416 FTP Clients Cannot Rename Files on Remote FTP Virtual Directory

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