war FTP deamon for Windows

[dconderm]

I have a client that is wanting to use a complex system of FTP clients/admins and directories. Near as I can tell the freeware war FTP server is exactly what they are needing. Since I cant find anything like it for my linux server, I am thinking of getting a windows server specifically for them. Is war FTP deamon allowed in Windows servers?

--dan

[bow-wow]

I think you can run any ftp server you want as long as you don't do it in a way that would violate the AUP (transmit/receive illegal content, etc).

That aside, I've known proftpd (linux) to work well with some pretty convoluted virtual site setups. Have you tried that?
If you are looking for something even more intricate, have you looked at glftpd?
http://www.glftpd.com/

[dconderm]

I looked at PRoFTP and the other one you said. I am unsure as to how They could administer that without having root access to my server. If anyone here knows, PLEASE contact me.. I am desprate for a solution, these are my best clients and I cant afford to loose them.

--dan

[DXD]

For linux you could use gftpd server, which I use to use a long time ago. It will do what you need and is free but I'm not sure where you can get it you'll have to search for it.

[bow-wow]

Originally posted by dconderm
I looked at PRoFTP and the other one you said. I am unsure as to how They could administer that without having root access to my server. If anyone here knows, PLEASE contact me.. I am desprate for a solution, these are my best clients and I cant afford to loose them.

--dan With proftpd, I think you could create a virtualhost section for them in the main conf file, and use an include to load a conf file that you could put in your client's directory for them to modify/administer. As far as ftp users go, you could use MySQL and put an SQLAuthenticate directive within this user's virtualhost section of the main proftp config, and give them full access to the table you specify, that way they could administer their own ftp users.

Note: I used to use proftpd, and I think the above could work, but I've never done anything like that myself. There could be security implications involved in such a setup (or in running proftpd itself). This setup should provide the desired functionality, but might require a [self-written/created] user interface to be truely useful, that is unless your client doesn't mind editing a text conf file and modifying records in an sql database directly. :)

[ScubaTAz]

Hi,

On windows serv-u ftp will do what you want, you will need the corporate edition though, if I am not mistaken, it has an interface that allows ratios, user everything.

On the Linux side the best is PureFTPD, it stores everything in MySQL has bandwidth limiting and is free, using php, you can add remove users, bandwith limits etc

I have used both on relatively big systems and they work well

Hope that helps

ScubaTaz

[dconderm]

Hello

Thank you everyone for the input. For right now I am using a server with Cpanel installed. Cpanel has some good ftp admin built into it, where as Plesk as none. So I am going to try this out for a short time and see what happens.

Once again, thank you for the input.
--dan