Iis – How to setup a FTP user for IIS’ FTP in Windows 7

IIS 7 introduces IIS Manager accounts which can be used for a number of things, including FTP.

Note that once you grant them IIS Manager Permissions, they will be able to manage their site using IIS Manager, as long as you also turn on the Management Service (WMSvc) at the top level.

Additionally, you can then grant that user access to FTP.

Here are the key steps:

• create a user at the top level, under IIS Manager Users
• give the "Local Service" user read/write access to the site, or change the Web Management Service (WMSvc) service to a custom account and use that instead. The account that the WMSvc service runs under is what needs to have read/write access to disk when using IIS Manager user.
• grant that user access to the site or application, under IIS Manager Permissions
• in FTP Authentication on the site, make sure to add the IisManagerAuth custom provider
• in FTP Authorization, make sure to grant that user access

Everything else is the same as you would setup a Windows user for FTP.

I had a similar issue on Windows 7, but I solved it by allowing the "Users" group write and modify permissions on the file system folder which was the FTP root.

1. Find the ftp root in your file system
2. Right-click > Properties > Security
3. Edit the settings for the "Users" group to include write and modify permissions

I think this is required because the anonymous FTP user will assume the privileges of the IUSR_... Windows account - which isn't necessarily the same user as the one running the FTP service?

Hope this helps.