Various FTP accounts question...

[eric]

Hi all,
I'm new to bluehost (and cpanel, etc.), and so far, so good!

So here's what I want to do, and am having trouble doing:
I want to set up various ftp accounts so that various people can download files that I've put in their "space" and they can upload files into their "space" (for me to download).

I've been able to create various ftp accounts. But when I log in through a startard FTP client, it actually uses a folder in public_html. As a result, anyone can just got to (url name).com/(ftp account handle) and download the files in that folder.

On the other hand, I'm able to go just mount ftp://url_name.com by logging in with the name/password of the ftp account I created onto my hard drive. But the ftp folder on my computer appears empty when there are files in the proper ftp folder (in public_html) and I am unable to upload anything to that "disk".

What am I missing?

Thanks in advance,
-eric

[sesstreets]

I think you just want to stop other people from viewing the files in those folders, the easy way is to just upload a blank index.html file into those folders. The server will not show anything else BUT that index page, and my mounting into ftp pureftpd (the ftp SERVER) knows NOT to parse indexes, so that you see whats ACTUALLY in there.

This way, users will have to login through ftp to get their files and upload and NO other way.