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            <h1>Installing Free Filezilla FTP Server with LDAP Authentication</h1>
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          <h2>Installing FileZilla Server</h2>

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	<li>Download FileZilla with LDAP support, FzLDAP <a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/fzldap/" target="_blank">Download</a></li>
	<li>Install the downloaded executable</li>
	<li>Launch FileZilla Server Administration</li>
	<li>Select Edit &gt; Settings from the top navigation</li>
	<li>Click LDAP from the left navigation</li>
	<li>Check the Enable LDAP support box</li>
	<li>Fill out the LDAP server, port and domain name</li>
	<li>Click OK</li>
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<h2>Adding Individual LDAP Users</h2>

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	<li>Back in Server Administration click Edit &gt; Users</li>
	<li>Click the Add button under Users</li>
	<li>Enter the username exactly as it is in LDAP</li>
	<li>Leave the Password checkbox unchecked</li>
	<li>Under the Check password in section uncheck LOCAL and check the LDAP option</li>
	<li>Click Shared folders under the Page section</li>
	<li>Click the Add button and browse to folder(s) to share with the new user</li>
	<li>Set the users permissions to the right of the directories box</li>
	<li>Click OK once finish with configuration.</li>
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<h2>Batch Importing LDAP Users</h2>

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	<li>From the Start menu launch FzLDAP Import</li>
	<li>Fill out the LDAP server information
	<p>Server: i12bretro.local<br />
	Port: 389<br />
	Domain: i12bretro.local<br />
	User: readonly_svc<br />
	Password: Read0nly!!<br />
	Base DN: DC=i12bretro,DC=local<br />
	Search DN: CN=Users,DC=i12bretro,DC=local<br />
	Search: cn=*</p>
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	<li>A list of users found with the LDAP search will display &gt; Click Next</li>
	<li>Set the FTP root directory path</li>
	<li>Click the Generate button</li>
	<li>A summary will be displayed &gt; Click OK</li>
	<li>Click the ed button next to users.txt to view the generated users file</li>
	<li>Open File Explorer and navigate to C:\Program Files (x86)\FileZilla Server</li>
	<li>Edit FileZilla Server.xml in a text editor</li>
	<li>Copy the user(s) generated in users.txt to the Users node of FileZilla Server.xml</li>
	<li>Save the changes to FileZilla Server.xml</li>
	<li>Right click on the Start button &gt; Run &gt; type services.msc &gt; Press Enter</li>
	<li>Find the FileZilla Server FTP server and restart the service</li>
	<li>Load FileZilla Server Administration</li>
	<li>Click Edit &gt; Users from the top navigation</li>
	<li>The imported user(s) should be listed and editable</li>
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<h2>Testing LDAP Authentication</h2>

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	<li><label for="cb_li_445432_0">Download FileZilla FTP client </label><label for="cb_li_445432_0"><a href="https://filezilla-project.org/download.php?show_all=1" target="_blank">Download</a></label></li>
	<li><label for="cb_li_743670_1">Extract the downloaded FileZilla .zip file</label></li>
	<li><label for="cb_li_743670_1">Launch FileZilla.exe</label></li>
	<li>Enter the FileZilla server DNS name or IP address in the host field</li>
	<li>Enter the LDAP credentials in the username and password fields</li>
	<li>Click the Quickconnect button</li>
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