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> I'm getting a strange error message, that seems to be
> tied to permissions on folders but I really can't say for
> certain, on my FTP server. I'm running IIS 6.0 on
> Windows Server 2003, using Active Directory.
>
> The strange part about this was that the FTP server was
> running fine. Then we had to do an uninstall and
> reinstall of Active Directory to fix a totally unrelated
> issue. When we reinstalled it, the FTP server started
> giving me the strange error.
>
> Here's the issue: Whenever someone logs into the FTP
> server, the server seems to authenticate them without
> issue. However, whenever it attempts to return the
> directory listing, we keep getting the following error:
>
> ! Retrieve of folder listing failed (4)
>
> This occurs regardless of whether the user is anonymous
> or an actual user in Active Directory.
>
> I've tried everything, including giving the users
> administrative rights. Nothing seems to be working.
>
> The FTP root folder (c:\inetpub\ftproot) has two
> subfolders: 'LocalUser' and another one that matches the
> name of the domain. Inside of LocalUser, we have a
> folder called 'Public', and inside of the domain folder
> we have folders for each of the users who have FTP access
> to the server.
>
> Each user has been given full access rights to their
> respective folder.
>
> I searched the knowledge base for that error message - no
> luck. I'm at the end of my rope here. Any ideas on
> where to look?
>
> Thanks in advance.

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