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 FTP Users and Files access and management
Hi, Our company has over 20k users, and we provide them with service packs and other downloads through our website (under HTML address). I want to have a little more control and report abilities over who's downloading what, and I am looking for such a system that can help me achieving that. 1. I will define for users which files they can download , this can/should be limited in time. 2. I want to give my employees, the ability to create a user-file-time connection, so that the user can DL the file. 3. I don't want to have multiple copies of the files on the server, maybe something like Virtual directoris for each user. Does anyone knows of such a solution?

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ASKED: September 4, 2008  11:41 AM
UPDATED: September 4, 2008  4:38 PM

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I would recommend <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/en/us/default.aspx">Microsoft's System Center Configuration Manager</a> for handing out updates/patches/fixes. This will permit you to manage what systems & who gets the updates. You might also consider other FTP servers that integrate with AD and maybe implement group policies to meet your objectives. I don't know any solution for this so if you find one, maybe post your solution here. ---------- I'd recommend setting this up through the web server. Doing this through an FTP server will be pretty comlex. Setup a site which requires a username and password for each user, and have a database which tracks what user gets access to which file.
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My FTP will be stored on a remote FTP now, I will not incorporate AD into this (maybe only on the internal users side, but this is not the major issue).

The FTP is on a Unix system, so Windows solution is not an option.

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