NT Authentication transmits passwords over the network without data encryption. To avoid exposing your passwords to possible theft, use SSL connections with NT Authentication.
Secure FTP Server can create sites using the NT user authentication database so users can connect to the site with their NT user name and password. Permissions are assigned to users from the NT User Database on the domain of the system that is running the Server. Secure FTP Server queries the Primary Domain Controller (PDC) for your domain and adds all domain users.
Users are listed as soon as you open the site you created using NT Authentication. You cannot add or change users from Secure FTP Server, but you can change their permissions, settings and status on the server.
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NT Authentication transmits passwords over the network without data encryption. To avoid exposing your passwords to possible theft, use SSL connections with NT Authentication. |
To create a site
Follow the steps in Creating Sites up to specifying an authentication method.
In the Authentication method list, click Windows NT Authentication, then click Next.
Click Yes. The Authentication Options appear.
Specify Active Directory (AD) Authentication, or NTLM Authentication to match what is used on the server's domain.
In the Domain Context area, click Use default if you want to use the authentication database from the machine's current domain, or Custom, and supply the domain name that has the authentication database you want to use.
In the Allow access to the following group area, click Everyone to allow access to every user in the domain's database, or Custom and supply a group name for users that will have access to the Server.
If you specified Active Directory Authentication, in the Use this user attribute as logon name list, specify the attribute based on what your database uses.
In the User list refresh interval list, specify how often Secure FTP Server is to check the authentication database for new users.
Click Next.
Specify the path to the root folder for the Site.
If you are trying to mimic a typical default *nix Secure FTP server setup, select the Create standard subfolders check box to automatically create Bin, Pub, Usr and Incoming folders with appropriate permissions under the root folder.
Select the Auto assign home folders to site users check box to automatically create a user folder under \Site Root\Usr\ when a new user is added.
Click Finish. If the root folder has not already been created, you are prompted to do so. Click Yes. The folder is created and the Create New Site wizard closes.