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530 User <username> cannot log in - Login Failed

Symptom: When using Internet Explorer to connect to an FTP site, the following error occurs:

530 User <username> cannot log in.
Login failed.

Causes:
1. The "Allow only anonymous connections security" setting has been turned on in the MMC.

2. The username does not have the "Log on locally" permission in User Rights Assignment.

3. The username does not have the "Access this computer from the network" permission in User Rights Assignment.

4. The Domain Name was not specified along with the username (in the form of DOMAIN\USERNAME ).

RESOLUTION

1. To clear the "Allow only anonymous connections security" check box, perform the following steps: run IIS, Right-click the default FTP site folder, and then click Properties. On the Security Accounts tab, clear the Allow only anonymous connections security check box. Click OK .

2. To give the username the "Log On Locally" permission, How to assign a user right log on locally.

3. To give the username the Access this computer from the network permission, How to assign a user right for "Access this computer from the network".

4. Try using the command line FTP utility and specifying the FTP username in the form of "DOMAIN\USERNAME" when you log into the FTP Site. If this works, then you can either instruct all users to log on using DOMAIN\USERNAME or you can specify the default authentication domain that the FTP Service should use when authenticating accounts that do not exist locally and that were not entered in "DOMAIN\USERNAME" form. To do this you will need to make changes to the Metabase.