What kind of state information is maintained by an FTP server? Solution In a FTP session, the user should be sitting in front of one host machine and wants to transfer files to or from a remote host. In order for the user to access the remote account, the user must provide user id and a password. After the authorization information is provided and correct, the user can transfer files from the local file system to the remote file system and vice versa. The FTP server sholud maintain state about the user. Server must associate the control connection with a specific user , and the server must keep track of the user\'s current directory as the user knows about the remote directory. Keeping track of this state information of each user and every session, the total number of session that FTP can maintain simultaneously..