IIS ftp server

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We've installed/enabled IIS to get us an FTP server site on a windows
XP pro. This machine has local accounts for remote users to connect
to. Thus they can remotely "window" in, be prompted to change
their password the first time and use their local accounts to ftp
files to/from us.

What if the remote end was not using windows? If they had some type
of unix host, they could still ftp in but as we set up their local
accounts
to force changing their initial password, this would not work. Or is
there
some other mechanism we could turn to allow non-windows machines
to connect and change their initial password (something like telnet)


Does samba perhaps have such a capability? (Their unix end cannot be
the master so smbpasswd
wouldn't work unless it pointed to us to authenticate and allow
password changes)


Thanks
 
We've installed/enabled IIS to get us an FTP server site on a windows
XP pro. This machine has local accounts for remote users to connect
to. Thus they can remotely "window" in, be prompted to change
their password the first time and use their local accounts to ftp
files to/from us.

What if the remote end was not using windows? If they had some type
of unix host, they could still ftp in but as we set up their local
accounts
to force changing their initial password, this would not work. Or is
there
some other mechanism we could turn to allow non-windows machines
to connect and change their initial password (something like telnet)

Does samba perhaps have such a capability? (Their unix end cannot be
the master so smbpasswd
wouldn't work unless it pointed to us to authenticate and allow
password changes)

Thanks
Click to expand...

IIS is usually used to set up a web site. If you set up a ftp site,
you still should be able to use generic "ftp" clients but may not be
able to change thier passwords.

Samba is not an FTP module. Samba normally allows you to "share: Unix
files as if they are Windows files.
 
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