Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. Ask Question. Asked 12 years, 2 months ago. Active 8 years, 4 months ago. Viewed k times. Improve this question. Peter Mortensen 2, 5 5 gold badges 23 23 silver badges 24 24 bronze badges. Matt Frear Matt Frear 1 1 gold badge 2 2 silver badges 6 6 bronze badges.
First, it's better to add it through the "Add Features" option from the server management console than to do it the route that you went.
Do you have that installed? I don't think there's a Server Management Console in Windows 7. If there is, I don't know how to access it. Sorry, for some reason I was thinking you were talking about , not 7. Active Oldest Votes. I just replicated your results. Improve this answer. Jason R. Coombs Jason R. Coombs 1, 1 1 gold badge 10 10 silver badges 18 18 bronze badges.
You will need to run the installation package as an administrator. This can be accomplished by one of the following methods:. Logging in to your server using the actual account named "Administrator", then browsing to the download pages listed above or double-clicking the download package if you have saved it to your server. Logging on using an account with administrator privileges and opening a command-prompt by right-clicking the Command Prompt menu item that is located in the Accessories menu for Windows programs and selecting "Run as administrator", then typing the appropriate command listed below for your version of Windows to run the installation:.
When the installation package opens, you should see the following screen. Click Next to continue. On the next screen, click the I accept check box if you agree to the license terms, and then click Next. The following screen lists the installation options.
Choose which options you want installed from the list, and then click Next. On the following screen, click Install to begin installing the options that you chose on the previous screen. If an error occurs during installation, you will see an error dialog. Refer to the Troubleshooting Installation Issues section of this document for more information. When the installation of FTP 7 fails for some reason, you should see a dialog with a button called "Installation log".
Clicking the "Installation log" button will open the MSI installation log that was created during the installation. You can also manually enable installation logging by running the appropriate command listed below for your version of Windows. In this way, when a user connects, they specify a path that will connect to one specific folder.
In Windows 7, you right-click on the site name and choose Add Virtual Directory. Click Next and now browse to the path where you want the alias to refer to. So if you have a bunch of movies you want to share, browse to that folder. Click Next and choose whether you want it as Read access only or Read and Write access.
If you simply want to share files, check Read. If you want people to be able to upload files to your computer, choose Read and Write. Click Next and then click Finish! In Windows 7 and up, the process is reduced to one dialog shown below:. You can create as many folders as you like!
The only thing other thing that you would need to do is to give out your public IP address to anyone who is connecting from outside of your internal network. Port Forward is a great site to show you how to forward ports on your router to computers on your home network. You should also read my other posts on port forwarding and dynamic DNS:. What is Port Forwarding?
This is definitely a lot of info with a bunch of steps; if you have any questions about all of this, post a comment! Founder of Online Tech Tips and managing editor. He began blogging in and quit his job in to blog full-time. He has over 15 years of industry experience in IT and holds several technical certifications. Read Aseem's Full Bio. We hate spam too, unsubscribe at any time. Table of Contents.
0コメント