CrushFTP Features/Virtual Directories

Now you can serve out files without rearranging your actual directory structure. CrushFTP 3 lets you generate a directory structure from your existing files and directories, and modify it. All without changing your real files at all. Now you can have one way fro your viewing on your personal machine, and throw various items together in a structure for FTP users. But it doesn't stop there. CrushFTP 3 works on the principal that your local files are just on host 127.0.0.1. By doing this, you can also add files from any other FTP server on the Internet into "your" structure. Not only that...you can modify that structure, all without changing the remote servers files. For instance, you may have some registered site you use to store files on...but you don't have the control to limit permissions on the files. Well, you can run CrushFTP on your local machine to serve out those files, and control the access people have to them. The amount of control CrushFTP 3 gives you is unbelievable. Another example would be the college user who wants to share out his MP3's he's been recording in his studio. Well, if a few of his friends are doing the same, they can all collaborate on one main server that serves out files from all their machines. Each machine has an FTP server, the main one using CrushFTP 3. Just add the other servers into your listing of files and when a user logs in, they get everything. No longer a need to hoard tons of files you don't even want when you can serve them off of other servers.

It even goes further than that with template accounts too. You can setup a user called "template". If a user tries to login to your machine...and fails, it next tries the template account if it exists. If so, CrushFTP 3 will use the supplied username, and password that the user logged in with to authenticate them to other ftp servers they access. So you add in a few servers in which a user has access to. They login once to your server, and just continue to browse around while CrushFTP does all the authentications on the fly. This gives a way to have a bunch of FTP servers all together on one server...eliminating the need to keep logging in to different servers. CrushFTP also takes the work out of crummy FTP servers that don't display directory listings in the standard UNIX style. It will translate Netware, and Vax VMS FTP listings to UNIX style listings so that nearly 100% of FTP clients.