IIS7 Windows Server 2008 FTP -> Response: 530 User cannot log in

Question

I just launched my first IIS FTP site following many of the tutorials from IIS.NET... I'm using IIS Users and Permissions rather than anonymous and/or basic.

This is what I'm seeing while trying to establish the connection...

Status:    Resolving address of ftp.mydomain.com 
Status:    Connecting to ###.###.##.###:21... 
Status:    Connection established, waiting for welcome message... 
Response:  220 Microsoft FTP Service  
Command:   USER MyFTPUser  
Response:  331 Password required for MyFTPUser. 
Command:   PASS ********************  
Response:  530 User cannot log in. 
Error:     Critical error 
Error:     Could not connect to server

Answer 1

It's quite old but I found myself in the same situation. I solved giving the right permission to the "Network services" on some configurafiles:

CACLS “%SystemDrive%\Windows\System32\inetsrv\config” /G “Network Service”:R /E
CACLS “%SystemDrive%\Windows\System32\inetsrv\config\administration.config” /G “Network Service”:R /E
CACLS “%SystemDrive%\Windows\System32\inetsrv\config\redirection.config” /G “Network Service”:R /E

Hope it helps.

Answer 2

Looks like you are not able to connect to the server. The issue is not related to password. I am not sure what you mean when you said "

using IIS Users and Permissions rather than anonymous and/or basic

You will need to implement some authentication either Anonymous or Basic. Follow this article and you should be good.

Answer 3

From: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/200475

This problem occurs when one of the following scenarios is true:

• The Allow only anonymous connections security setting has been turned on in the Microsoft Management Console (MMC).

• The username does not have the Log on locally permission in User Manager.

• The username does not have the Access this computer from the network permission in User Manager.

• The Domain Name was not specified together with the username (in the form of DOMAIN\username).

Do any of these apply?

Also as a side note I would recommend using SFTP instead of FTP - as you may know FTP transfers everything in cleartext (passwords included).