IIS7 - Known Issues and Workarounds

Re: FTP site migrated to Windows 2008 (IIS7) from Windows 2003 server

JaroDunajsky — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 04:51:38 GMT

Indeed, we pulled the support for recursive directory listing from FTP 7.0. Most clients are GUI based these days and they can take care of deep listings on their own (if they care).

Deep directory listing may be and expensive operation that could block a server thread for a long time with one single FTP command. That was one of the reason we pulled it.

I hope this will not cause you much pain.

Re: FTP site migrated to Windows 2008 (IIS7) from Windows 2003 server

steve schofield — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 03:22:08 GMT

I was able to reproduce the behavior. I'll ping the IIS team and see what they say. Looks like a behavior change between the versions.

Re: FTP site migrated to Windows 2008 (IIS7) from Windows 2003 server

harikk — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 22:16:56 GMT

I have tested "dir -R" on Windows 2003 server from Windows/Linux commadline and it does displays all subfolder content recursively.In case of Windows 2008 server it only displays current folder content. We noticed this issue after one of our client notified.

Re: FTP site migrated to Windows 2008 (IIS7) from Windows 2003 server

harikk — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 16:23:56 GMT

Here is the message from client and more details on "dir -R" - http://linux.about.com/library/cmd/blcmdl1_dir.htmWe FTP to your server directly from a UNIX prompt. Before we used to use the command “dir –R” and the results would give us a listing of all the directories in our folder plus under those directories it would list all the files within it. Example: DIRECTORY_1 File_1 File_2 File_3DIRECTORY_2 File_A File_B Since your upgrade when we enter the “dir –R” command we only get the directories. Example: DIRECTORY_1

DIRECTORY_2

Re: FTP site migrated to Windows 2008 (IIS7) from Windows 2003 server

harikk — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 16:08:01 GMT

The "dir -R" I tested against Windows 2003 server and it displays all folders and subfolder content recursively (tested from Windows and Linux commandline). In Windows 2008 server it only displays current folder content. Let me know if you need sample screen output

We noticed this issue after client reported the problem..

Here is the message from client and more information about Linux dir (http://linux.about.com/library/cmd/blcmdl1_dir.htm)We FTP to your server directly from a UNIX prompt. Before we used to use the command “dir –R” and the results would give us a listing of all the directories in our folder plus under those directories it would list all the files within it. Example: DIRECTORY_1 File_1 File_2 File_3DIRECTORY_2 File_A File_B Since your upgrade when we enter the “dir –R” command we only get the directories. Example: DIRECTORY_1DIRECTORY_2

Re: FTP site migrated to Windows 2008 (IIS7) from Windows 2003 server

steve schofield — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 09:32:58 GMT

Help me understand something. I downloaded pc-bsd and loaded in a VMware session. From my pc-bsd instance, I type dir -R Are you saying the -R should 'recurse'? the entire folder structure? Did this functionality work in your previous FTP server, which I presume was w2k3 FTP?

PS - The server I was FTP'ing to was w2k8 64 bit / FTP 7.5.

Re: FTP site migrated to Windows 2008 (IIS7) from Windows 2003 server

harikk — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 21:55:18 GMT

We use IIS 7.0. We migrated to 2008 to offer FTP with SSL. The directory style is UNIX which is what we have on 2003 server.

Only difference I am seeing between old and new server is in Directory browsing screen in the new version we have additional options – 1. Display Virtual Directories 2. Display bytes information which are checked

Thanks for your help

Re: FTP site migrated to Windows 2008 (IIS7) from Windows 2003 server

steve schofield — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 20:13:52 GMT

What version of FTP are you using on w2k8? Are you using FTP 7.0 or the built-in FTP service with the OS? The built-in FTP service is the same one on IIS 6 / w2k3. If you are using the FTP 7.0 one, look at changing the Directory Listing Style.

FTP site migrated to Windows 2008 (IIS7) from Windows 2003 server

harikk — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:45:14 GMT

We recently migrated IIS FTP from Windows 2003 to IIS7 Windows 2008 server. What we found is from Linux/Unix box if we connect and run "dir - R" it is only showing top level directories where as if we run same command on old server it display all folder and sub folder information.

Can someone help me what I need to do make this work in IIS 7.I appreciate your help.