Importing Users from another FTP Server

[astahl]

I have an old server that is using Ipswitch WS_FTP Server.
I have the data for usernames, passwords, folders and such, and would
like to import this into FileZilla Server. I see that the FileZilla Server.xml
holds all the information plus an encoded password. Is it possible for me to write
a program to import the users into the FileZilla Server.xml and create an encoded
password that FileZilla Server will understand?

Does FileZilla Server have anyway of doing this?


Ashley Stahl

[boco]

If you just build an XML file with the correct syntax FileZilla Server will have no problem using it. The ''encoded'' password is just plain MD5 hash.

[astahl]

Boco, Thanks that is exactly what I needed to know.

Ashley

[astahl]

Boco,

I built the xml file FileZilla Server.xml withe the added users triple checked the xml and FileZilla Server
still only reads the first 3 I added manually. None of the rest will show in the Users section of the program.

So what else must be done?


Ashley Stahl

[botg]

Have you validated the XML to be syntactically correct?

[boco]

XML syntax is very strict AFAIK. Only one rogue whitespace can cause it to fail. botg is right, you should validate.

[astahl]

I have validated the xml file online and it found no errors in the file.

So what else could cause this?


Ashley

[boco]

What's your OS and where did you install FZ Server to?

[astahl]

WIndows 2008 Server...intalled to C:\Program Files(86)\FileZilla


Ashley

[astahl]

To All,

Thanks for all the help!!! It took 2 reboots of the server to actually get it working!

All is now good. One suggestion that might be nice is when the FileZilla interface
is opened a "Refresh" button in the user section that would re-read the xml file and then
display.


Ashley

[boco]

After copying the new XML over the old one while FZ Server is still running, you must call the FileZilla Server.exe with the parameter /reload-config once.