Tuesday, March 18, 2008

I am getting the following error when I FTP into my server: "home directory inaccessible". How can I fix this?

The Standard fixes here are the user doesn't have read rights to the home directory he's setup for in IIS.

1. Download the "filemon" utility from http://www.sysinternals.com
2. Run the utility
3. Configure filter of this utility on the directory c:\inetpub
4. Try to log into ftp as user test (obviously after created)
5. Do a search for "Access Denied"
6. The utility shows the reason of the problem...inetinfo.exe is trying to open c:\inetpub\servers\1001\reallylongcomp\test instead of c:\inetpub\servers\1001\reallylongcomputername\test

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