FTP the right way

[zmatt]

My friend is fairly new to the techie scene but he wants to set up and ftp server. I have already gotten him up and running with a free VNC client so he doesn't need to be at the server to administer it. But he is lost on FTP. I have never done it before so I'm not much help. Can anyone lead em to a good free ftp program for him? And a tutorial how to set it up and use it that he can understand? BTW this machine runs windows 2000 professional. Thanks for all the help!

 

[peterhuang913]

doesnt firefox have a ftp plugin?

try this
i haven't done real ftp but ive done some ftp for a website id made a while back

 

[CalcProgrammer1]

I use War FTP Daemon, it's easy to configure, has a complete GUI interface, and is dead simple to operate. I run it on an old P133 64MB RAM Windows 98 SE and it works awesome. You can set up a user database so that each user gets their own permissions, like which folders and drives they can access, and whether they can upload or not. It supports accessing drives, I have my floppy drive online and 2 partitions. I'm sure it'd run on Win2k...in fact I think I installed it on my Win2k laptop...

 

[CalcProgrammer1]

War FTP Daemon

I use it on my P133 64MB RAM Win98SE FTP server, it has a dead simple GUI with user database, can access any drive, each user has their own set of permissions, and it works well. Google "War FTP Daemon" to find it, I forgot the link. It should run on the comp in question, if it runs on a P133 (and actually a P75 16MB Win95 that I had before I got the 133).

 

[KSoD]

FileZilla is a good one. Free as well.

 

[zmatt]

i thought filezilla was only an ftp client. I need an ftp server app.

 

[TheMajor]

Bulletproof FTP is good.

 

[CalcProgrammer1]

I use WAR FTP Daemon, it's awesome! It runs great even on ancient hardware, like the Pentium 133 64MB with Win98SE that I'm running it on, and has a dead simple GUI interface with a "User Database" that allows you to config each user to have their own set of available folders/drives and read/write permissions.

Actually, I ran it for a few months on a Pentium 75 w/ 16MB RAM and Win95

 

[zmatt]

OK so he has the server up but it can't be accessed outside of his own network. he thinks its something with port forwarding. the IP is 74.131.198.137

 

[TheMajor]

Yes, hes should forward port 21 to his computers IP in the router settings.