How to Create FTP User Isolation site (IIS) in windows 2008 R2

FTP user isolation is a good way to protect your data from unnecessary access and provides control over sharing and security. FTP user isolation will help security over FTP authentication and FTP authorization. We have different version of IIS running with all favors of window release and it’s all about running websites.

In windows 2008 R2 we have IIS version 7 released, even we have IIS 7.5 release in windows 7, IIS 8 release in windows 8 and IIS 8.5 release in Windows 8.1.

Through FTP share, We can isolate the access by providing access to limited user or group of users both domain users and workgroup user.

To install FTP site, we should have mandatory Web server (IIS) Roles which includes FTP server’s role also.

 Create a New Folder in desired location, where you like to keep the shared data.

Open Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager console.

Expand your domain, R.click on sites and select ADD FTP share

Name the FTP site and browse to the FTP directory which you have created early.

Next you need to configure Bindings. Bindings are basically what IP address you like to assign or FTP should communicate through website and choose No SSL unless we use certificates.

Setup for authentication and authorization, for authentication you can choose Basic or Anonymous and for authorization you can choose either All users, Anonymous users or specific users.

But this scenario we will learn to assign the FTP access to individual user.

Lastly, click on Finish.

Now, we will see if the FTP share has started working with specified user access.

You can now access the FTP site from any client machine in the domain using the user credentials,

Open computer explorer and type as below to access FTP share.

ftp://ftp-server-IP-address/ FTPshareName/

Finally you will be successfully login to FTP share and save you data over the network in FTP server environment.