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I have an ftp server setup using FileZilla Server and 5 application servers which each have a backup folder that is shared.

On the ftp server I have setup symlinks in the root ftp directory that point to each of the backup directories. When using Windows Explorer I can navigate between each of these network locations via the symlinks, add, modify or delete as I please.

However, when I connect to the same location using an ftp client, the symlink folders are visible; appserver01backups, appserver02backups, etc. but when they are opened they are listed as empty directories.

Can anyone help resolve this or think of a better solution to be able to access multiple network shared folder locations from a single point of access e.g. ftp.

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  • what's the operating system of the server?
    – golimar
    May 7, 2013 at 9:19
  • All servers are running on Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
    – Ghandi Manning
    May 7, 2013 at 9:37

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Access to the networked locations were being authenticated against the service account used to run the FilZilla service.

I switched this to an account that has permissions to access the networked location.

Being a non-domain environment, this was duplicated accounts with the same username and password on both the ftp server and all source application servers.

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One option since you aren't using Active Directory would be to use public keys with Filezilla. Server 2008 also supports SFTP but I haven't played with it much as I usually use dedicated SSH products for the clients that I support.

You could then generate your key pair(s), put the public key on the destination server and then use the private key to establish the connection using your preferred method of transfer (SFTP, SCP.)

Then you can just write a script in your preferred scripting language and execute via a scheduled task.

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  • This sounds like very good advice for providing a secure SFTP connection and possibly automating data transfer, but it doesn't directly solve the problem described. I have managed to resolve my issue however which was related to the service user described in my answer. Thanks.
    – Ghandi Manning
    May 8, 2013 at 16:04

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