configure ftp in Lion Server?

Have you thought of using the WebDAV system? Apple's intention was to remove FTP and replace it with WebDAV.

If your looking at setting up a solution for a company like Zeiss Optics and are pouring that much money into it, then I'd certainly call enterprise support.

I was digging through the old FTP config files in /etc and in the old ftp root location and find that they've been completely hollowed out. I have a hunch that your going to find a dead end on the native OS X FTP road.

It wasn't my intention to frustrate you with the WebDAV response, however it IS apples intended replacement for FTP.

-Graham

What's missing in your post is what's not working.

You say you've found how to start it up, but you haven't said what problems you're experiencing that you're trying to solve.

Independent of whether FTP has a place in a modern OS (and there are many systems beyond Zeiss Optics who have a problem spelling anything more complex than 'F-T-P'...), it would help to know what you're trying to achieve, what you've done to date, and what challenges you're encountering.

For the most part, for LAN-based clients, enabling FTP is little more than creating a user account and enabling the FTP service. The tricks come when you want to restrict certain clients, or when you want access from the internet rather than just from the LAN.

4) add the ftp-sharepoint, BUT HOW I CAN DO THIS???

The obvious solution seems to be to set the home directory of the 'tcp' user to the HD/Sharepoint/tcp directory.

That way, when the tcp user logs in, they're automatically dropped into that directory. No additional configuration is needed.

Am I missing something?

With which command (CLI) can I set that sharepoint?

There is no sharepoint to set. By default each user will automatically connect to their home directory when they log in, so setting the Zeiss user's home directory to this directory should solve the problem.

Will that homedirectory of the user tcp filled with standard folders like (download, desktop, sites, movies etc)

If you choose to have the OS create the user's home directory (e.g. in Workgroup Manager) then yes, otherwise no. Even if it does create these extra directories, there's nothing preventing you from deleting them.

Their it will only accept it for afp & smb but not for ftp!

No. You are misunderstanding what the GUI is doing.

In the file sharing section of Server Admin you can choose a sharepoint to be used for home directories. This means that the specified user's home directory is on a central file server, rather than local on their machine.

Home directories can be shared via AFP, SMB or NFS

This doesn't have anything to do with FTP.

When a user logs in via FTP, the FTP server looks up that user's home directory, and THAT is what it presents to the user. It doesn't matter whether that home directory is local, on an AFP server, or an NFS server (which is what Server Admin lets you say).

So there's nothing to do in Server Admin regarding identifying a FTP share as a home directory. Just set the FTP server to serve the user's home directory only.