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JackTheTripper
10-29-2002, 10:49 AM
How would one set up an FTP site either

a) on a hosted web server

or

b) on their home PC

Thanx.:D
unixgal
10-29-2002, 10:56 AM
What is the OS we're talking about? For Linux/Unix a no brainer, on Windoze, you'll probably want to download one of the free ftp servers out there (I would never do this w/windows, so I don't know a good one in particular).

On a hosted server you would have to ask if they allow ftp, if so, and it is fully hosted, they will probably set it up for you.
Wolf
10-29-2002, 06:42 PM
Just go to download.com and search for FTP Server, find one that's free, install it, and you're set. Just have people connect to your IP address.
Valgar
10-29-2002, 10:15 PM
Originally posted by JackTheTripper
How would one set up an FTP site either

a) on a hosted web server

or

b) on their home PC

Thanx.:D

Yeah this is kind of a loaded question...

Quite a bit depends on the OS, the load you expect, the security you want.

I would recommend ProFTPD for a nice stable ftp daemon, if you are concerned about encryption/security go the SSH route and force clients to use sftp/scp to transfer files to/from the server.

Other questions that arise:

Is the ftp server going to be behind a locked down firewall?

Is this ftp server going to require bandwidth throttling?

Will you be instituting quotas on the ftp server (to ensure that users do not just leech files, but also upload)

Do you require a chrooted environment (I highly recommend it)
JackTheTripper
10-30-2002, 10:09 AM
Thanx for the replies.

Basically a friend of mine just needed to set up a temp ftp site so someone could send him some pretty big files. (Damn, porn takes up space:twofinger) He was thinking about doing it from work. Not sure about the firewall thing. Anyway I'm sure he'll figure it out.
Nick Ngo
11-06-2002, 12:05 PM
i just sent one up for work. Its pretty easy. Im using win2000 server. So all I did was create an ftp server site on IIS. Then I put anonymous logon. At the firewall, i made a rule to route ftp connection from my public ip address to the private ip address of my ftp server and walla it works.