Alias creation not working

[rkitect]

I have looked and followed directions in the FAQs and many posts regarding Aliases and I am still not getting something right. Looking at these images, please tell me what I am doing incorrectly to create aliases.

Server side view:


This is seen from the client side:


I have also tried setting the directory as the folder I want the person logging on to the server to use and the alias as the physical location on the disk.

ie:

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Directories         Alias
i:\                     i:\ftproot
i:\audio             j:\
i:\server           g:\

This did not work either. It seemes I am just missing something that is probably very simple.

All drives are physically located in the same computer the server is running on and 'SYSTEM' has access to all drives.

[boco]

I:\ftproot\http - does this directory exist? If yes, the alias'd directories should be inside.

I:\ftproot\http is /, F: is /audio and J: is /server

If it does still not work, try setting the aliases as I:\ftproot\http\audio, and I:\ftproot\http\server

boco

[rkitect]

OK.. Maybe this should be sticky?

Got this alias thing working finally. I'm not sure if it will take different things for different computers. But this is what got mine working.



Note that the Directory column contains the physical drive I am linking to. The alias column is a bit trickier. The I:\ftproot directory is the only one that actually exists. So everything after 'I:\ftproot' in the alias column is what shows up as a directory on the client side. So I:\ftproot\Audio is not an actual directory on my server!!! Here is what it looks like on the client side:



You'll notice that the 'directory name' that follows I:\ftproot\ in the alias directory is what shows up on the client side as the folder. if you need further explanation as to what I did, let me know.

[PhilB]

Since you offered, can you help me figure out what I am doing wrong?

I desire 1 login to alias 3 phyiscal drives at the root of each drive. I have set everything up as you did but clients only get the Home directory listed. None of the alias show up.

http://pballai.homeip.net/filezilla.jpg

???

Thanks,
PB

[brashquido]

Am I wrong, or is creating an alias for a group different to creating an alias for a user?

The only way I could get an alias to work for a user is to to the same as rkitect has done above, and set the alias to use the full home drive path suffixed by the actual alias I wanted. I.e home drive is set to C:\ftp\user and I want an alias of public_ftp, so I set the alias to C:\ftp\user\public_ftp.

However when setting an alias for a group all you have to do is add a directory and add the alias such as /public_ftp as described in the FAQ.

Another thing is that when you make these changes server side it seems that you have to restart your FTP client, a simple reconnect is not enough. I could be wrong about the alias thing as I only discovered I had to restart the Filezilla client towards the end.