[2005] Create local account

[tylerm]

I'm trying to integrate my application with IIS FTP, and I noticed I will need to create a user account on that machine using code.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

I'd also need to be able to set Member permissions, etc.

[SomethinCool]

I don't know how to do it in VB code, but you could try to execute a batch file or command line commands. You could execute these commands in the shell...

the "net user" command lets you add a user and then "net localgroup" lets you change the user groups they are located in.

For instance:

'Adds the user "jeff"
net user jeff /add 

'Adds the user "jeff" to the group "administrators"
net localgroup administrators jeff /add

I'm sure there is a way to do it in VB.net, but i'm not quite sure how...

[tylerm]

That works, what about setting folder permissions?


Also, how would I go about creating an FTP site on IIS 6.0 (Windows Server 2003)?

[SomethinCool]

You can use another command for folder permissions called "cacls"

Example:

'this will give the user "jeff" full control of the folder 

cacls C:\path\to\dir /G jeff:F

As far as configuring an FTP server.. check out this site here:
http://www.windowsnetworking.com/art...uring-FTP.html

[tylerm]

Well, I know how to configure FTP normally, I mean through code.