For other uses you can configure your own file path and password.
Pre IIS installation
- Control Panel - Administrative Tools - Manage Computer
- Click on the + net to local users and groups
- Right Click on 'Users'
- New User
- Username : Amethyst
- Password : amt (note the lowercase)
- Unselect user must change password at next logon
- Select Password never expires and user cannot change password
- Click 'Member Of'
- Click on 'Add'
- type 'administrators' (this should be the local PC's administrators group. Not the DOMAIN admin)
Installing IIS FTP server
- Add Remove Programs
- Remove Windows Components
- Select IIS and click details
- Tick FTP service and ‘OK’
- It will ask for the Windows XP disk.
Once installed:
- Control Panel
- Administrative tools
- Internet Information Services
- Local Computer
- FTP Sites
- Right Click on Default FTP Site
- FTP site Tab
- Untick Enable Logging
- Security Accounts Tab
- Deselect Allow Anonymous Connections
- Home Directory TAB
- Select Directory located on this computer [C:\program files\Datatex\Amethyst\FTP\]
- Tick Read and Tick Write
- The rest of the settings can stay as default
Troubleshooting:- The Amethyst username and password must be configured on the IIS FTP server,
- The Windows user 'amethyst' must be in the Administrators group
- Ensure the correct IIS FTP IP address(PC IIS FTP is installed on)
is being used in AMTCARDS.ini, - Check that the FTP homepath is valid : C:\Program Files\Datatex\Amethyst\FTP\,
- Check that the IIS service is started:
Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Internet Information Services >
Local Computer > FTP Sites > FTP Server Description > Right Click > Start - Untick the 'Allow Anonymous Connection' option
- The folder the account is pointing to,
make sure that the user amethyst has full access to the folder
C:\Program Files\Datatex\Amethyst\FTP - To test ftp on local machine is working:
Start > Run > CMD > Enter >
cd "C:\Program Files\Datatex\Amethyst" > Enter
Type FTP -i 127.0.0.1
You will get a prompt
Connected to 127.0.0.1.
220 Microsoft FTP Service
User (127.0.0.1:(none)):
Username is : amethyst
password is : amt
mput *.exe
When it is done the prompt will show
FTP>
Type : bye > Enter
Make sure that there are .exe files in C:\Program Files\Amethyst\FTP