FTP server software

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

I've been messing with Serv-U FTP, and it seems to be a pain in the arse to get setup and actually working. Does anyone have any other experience with programs to setup a FTP server on your machine? Just wondering if all of them were like this or not.
Tas.

 

[revnja]

I assume you're talking about Windows. I know two other popular ones are BPFTP (Bulletproof FTP) and RaidenFTPd.

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Bulletproof and RaidenFTP are for setting up an FTP server? I thought they were just FTP clients? If I'm mistaken, please let me know, and I will check it out...
Tas.

 

[bob4432]

filezilla, serv-u (honestly probably the easiest, what are your problems), guildftp

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

I've only started messing with it while I was getting ready for work, but I remember having a lot of problems with it in the past. The domain not coming up, etc. I did a couple of searches in google and whatnot, but apparently it isn't a very popular software genre. And I was inclined to see what other people, if any, used...
Tas.

 

[Orionetheus]

I like file zilla its so barebones so it's simple

 

[Modeps]

How about the classic WarFTPD?

 

[Cheetah8799]

Originally posted by: Modeps
How about the classic WarFTPD?

I used to use this back in the day. Was pretty good too for a windows FTP server.

edit: also, IIS has FTP server functionality. If you install on a non-server machine though I'm not sure if you still have the user limit that the web server functionality limits to.

 

[DarkTXKnight]

If this guy is trying to set up something on his home DSL\Cable connection, having a 10 concurrent user limit for the non-server load of IIS may not matter much.

 

[beyonddc]

I been using GuildFTPd for 4-5 years now. I never have a problem with it. Very easy to setup. They provide a tutorial on their website to teach you to setup their server if you're behind a firewall.

GuildFTPd

 

[bob4432]

Originally posted by: Modeps
How about the classic WarFTPD?

unless they changed a lot in the newer gens of war, i found it a little overwhelming, but very powerful. if the op is having problems with serv-u, war would be a nightmare...

 

[bob4432]

pick one and then we can help you out, if you want to stay with serv-u, cool, whatever you choose i am sure i have used.

also, don't use that dns stuff they have built in, i use no-ip, works like a charm

 

[cgott42]

I just installed serv-u to setup my PC as an FTP server.
Setup seems to have gone well.
Now how do I find out what address that I should tell people to use to connect to my FTP server?

thanks

 

[Nohr]

I use War FTP Daemon myself but as others have mentioned it's not very novice friendly.

 

[Joemonkey]

why not just use FTP built into IIS?

 

[cgott42]

Originally posted by: Joemonkey
why not just use FTP built into IIS?

How would I do that?

 

[cgott42]

Originally posted by: cgott42

Originally posted by: Joemonkey
why not just use FTP built into IIS?

How would I do that?

Since I have serv-u set up, does anyone know what I tell people to type into their ftp program to connect?
I have a cable modem connected to a router, and the server connected to the router.
I went to www.whatsmyipaddress.com and found out my ip, and entered that but it wouldn't connect, so I selected for serv-u to find my ip (but it doesn't tell you).
So I don't know what to tell people to type.

thanks

 

[cgott42]

To clarify the question:
My local ip is 192.168.0.49
when I enter it in serv-u as the ip, it connects,
I have a user name = "ralph" and password = "ralph"
and when I connect to ftp://192.168.0.49 via WS_FTP w/user="ralph" and p/w = "ralph" from a different computer on my network it connects without any problem. However how do I access the ftp server from a different computer not on my network? I checked www.whatsmyipaddress.com and got my address, and used that in WS_FTP but it doesn't connect.
Any ideas?

 

[r6ashih]

Okay. Your problem is that your having people log in with a local ip. Local IP's can not be accessed from outside. What you need to do is log into your router and forward port 21 to your local IP (192.168.0.49).

The address that you give to people is your public ip.

hope this helps!

 

[bob4432]

you will also want to make your server ip static on your lan, since you will be forwarding port 21 to whatever your ftp server ip is, which you stated is currently 192.168.0.49