I have spent many hours securing as best I can the network..........
Win2k3, ISA 2004, PIX 515, so on and so on.
With that said, I am now faced with the task of opening yet another hole.
I need to implement an FTP site to transfer files. Ideally I could just set
this up between companies but some people need to send to external contacts.
I welcome any opinions/recommendations as to what to use, tricks/pitfalls
ect......re: security.
Thanks in advance.

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I just went through the same thing. I'm using IIS because it was free, well,
came with win2k3. Just make sure to disable anonymous access if you use it,
and be sure to read up on virtual directory and local accounts for accessing
the FTP site. That being said, I know of some eaiser to manage solutions
like WS_FTP, and I'm not sure if Apache has it's own FTP component, but
would be worth investigating. In general, I've heard FTP is not very secure
because of the lack of encryption.
"D.A" <DA@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Also, check out the microsoft.public.inetserver.iis.ftp newsgroup. That
would be a better place to start.
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Thanks Nathon, I appreciate your input.

"Nathan Weldon" wrote: