Assigning the Service to an NT User Account

After you have installed the Server, created a Windows account for the Server, and assigned permissions to the account, you need to edit the service itself so that it will not run as a "System Account" (the default account choice). Running the service as System Account poses the potential hazard of giving users complete access to your system.

To assign the service to a Windows user account

  1. Open the Windows Services dialog box.

  2. Right-click GlobalSCAPE Secure FTP Server or GlobalSCAPE Secure FTP Server (FIPS), then click Properties.

  3. Follow the Windows operating system procedures for selecting an account under which the service will run.