How to configure ftp to authenticate users using simple membership

Hello there,

What I use at the moment,

Windows 7 (this is the devlopment machine, later planning to run on Windows Web Server 2008 R2, IIS 7.5 (on both platforms), ASP.NET MVC 4 (on both platforms), SQL Server 2012 on Windows 7 and SQL Server 2008 on 2008 R2

I am trying to configure FTP server to authenticate users by reading username and password from database. I also want to set different home directories for users.

I followed this post and when I added role and user via IIS manager according to the tutorial they were created in the database. But when I tried to login via ftp client (FileZilla) using the created user I get a connection time out.

http://www.iis.net/learn/publish/using-the-ftp-service/configuring-ftp-with-net-membership-authentication-in-iis-7

Can someone please explain how to implement what I want?

Will the following approach be suitable for me?

http://www.iis.net/learn/develop/developing-for-ftp/how-to-use-managed-code-c-to-create-a-simple-ftp-authentication-provider

http://www.iis.net/learn/develop/developing-for-ftp/how-to-use-managed-code-c-to-create-a-simple-ftp-home-directory-provider

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Asela