first of all I don't know if this question best belongs to sf or su, but anyway here it is.

I would like to set up a simple personal FTP box for synchronization purposes on my laptop running Windows 7 Enterprise. I saw it brings IIS with FTP services.

The laptop is on a corporate domain. I think I successfully set up the box and added one single virtual directory I need. I enabled basic authentication (I don't want anonymous access anyway) but all attempts to login failed.

Since I was unable to define users for FTP, I thought that authentication is performed against local and/or domain accounts. I tried logging in with my domain account in both the forms name.surname and CORP-DOMAIN\name.surname but I failed. Then I tried the local administrator account but still nothing. I explicitly added CORP-DOMAIN* as allowed users in configuration (I'll replace with the list of people allowed to sync with me) but again nothing.

I tried to find some tutorials but they all refer to Windows Server 2008/IIS7. I don't have a "User management" interface in my IIS configurator.

I would like to manually define users, to tell the truth. But I could find no screen to do it!

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