Agent86
> For example if I add a user, and then a group, and then an ibay and
> only allow a certain group to write/read, then does this effect who can
> ftp the ibay. And what is the ibay password for and is this necessary.
You are confusing local file sharing access with web access, they are very different things.
The group membership affects local access (eg file sharing or VPN or user ftp), not web access or ftp access direct to the ibay.
The password you set for the ibay relates to web access, and in this case you access using username=ibayname and password=ibaypassword
This will only permit downloads.
> What I would like to do is create an ibay with basically only one user
> access to the ibay for uploading his website files and folders etc.
You are referring to ftp access, sme does not permit anonymous ftp access to ibays.
Read the ibay chapter in the manual and it clearly advises you MUST use secure ftp (sftp) to access the sme server and then cd to the ibay. If you do this you will be able to upload files.
Note you must use a ftp client that supports this (not all do), and you must login as a valid user on the sme server using the users username and password (not the ibay password). This will log you in to the users home folder and then you issue the cd /home/e-smith/files/ibays/ibayname/html command. You can then upload files.
This method does not limit the user to their own home folder, so it's a bit dangerous. This is a contrib from dungog that you can use to set where the user has access to eg smeserver-remoteuseraccess contrib from
http://sme.dungog.net/packages/smeserver/7.0/i386/html/index_dungog.html.
You can specify that the user only has access to a certain ibay for example.
A combination of the above should achieve what you want.
Search on sftp for additional info as this has been answered before.