Allow my website visitors to FTP download my trial files

I offer trial download files to my site visitors. When I try to download a file using FTP I get a user login/password screen. How do I allow anyone to ftp download my files? I know I can do it with HTTP, but under heavy usage, FTP is more stable. I have setup a folder called FTP and placed all the files there. Do I need to set permissions on that folder or what?
Thanks,
Mike

 

In your Control Panel you can create user permissions for folders, give them FTP access.
http://kb.discountasp.net/article.aspx?id=10188
Hope that helps

 

Thank you for the quick reply! I read that article. Maybe it's because I'm on the windows 2008 server, but I do not see an option to allow FTP access. I'm stuck. After reading all the KB's, searching forums, I do not see how to do this. Could you be more specific on the exact procedure steps. Thank you very much.
Mike

 

I'll look into this for you, I've only allowed users to FTP on the 2003 sites I had here.
Salute,
Mark

 

I have this link posted all over the internet on software download sites:

ftp://ftp.mrtec.com/ffbmpro.exe

I have been offering free downloads of my software on the internet for over 14 years. This is my PRIMARY download link. Are you saying that there is NO WAY for me to make these links work anymore (they are all now currently broken since my domain transfered to your servers this week) on your server without a password? My customers are clicking on these links in their web browsers, not ftp clients. They don't know the password. I want them to download the file and am happy to pay for the bandwidth. There must be a solution??? This is a major problem for me and I am losing business.