Hi!

I am trying to make it possible for multiple different users to write to one directory. Like an anonymous FTP writable directory. But it won't be anonymous. However I am having difficulties of getting the users to that directory. I have chrooted all the users to their home directories. I have tried symbolic links. But the users can't follow them through ftp. IE doesn't even see them, and gFTP doesn't know what to do with them. So, what I'm trying to do is allow users to get from their home directory to a directory somewhere else. This is my main problem. Is there a way I can get this done?

Thanks!

If you chroot the user, how can he/she follow the symlink to some file outside his jail?

He cant. I fixed that. But the probelm still exists, that IE doesn't show the smbolic links Any ideas.

I'm also having this same problem--
The symlinks are showing up as files and can't be followed when in FTP-

You can follow them no problem through samba or ssh-



Any suggestions??

Never having played with this, I may not be much help, but my suggestion would be put all of the users you want to be able to ftp in into their own group. Then chown that folder to that group, and set up your ftp to only accept that group (if you can, again, I've never played with this).

My work around was I did a loopback device--

mount --bind /var/www/html/htdocs /home/userid

this worked like a charm.