FTP Site Mapped to a Remote Share May Have Access Problems

ID: Q195259

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Internet Information Server version 4.0

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:

Q172416 FTP Clients Cannot Rename Files on Remote FTP Virtual Directory

Additional query words:

Keywords : prodNT4OP
Version : winnt:4.0
Platform : winnt
Issue type : kbbug