Home Directory

The last FTP property sheet discussed here is on the Home Directory tab. Each FTP site requires a home directory. When a user connects to an FTP site, that user lands in the physical directory designated as the FTP site directory on the Home Directory tab of the Home Directory properties sheet. See Figure 6.5 if you need to review this property sheet.

Figure 6.5. FTP sites are associated with a physical directory on the Home Directory property sheet.

This section discusses the difference between local and remote directories, types of access to the FTP site, and directory listing styles.

Local versus Remote

The FTP site directory ...

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