Howto Setup a Ftp Server in 5 Minutes

How do you normally send files to a friend ? By email ? What if the file is rather big but you want to send it anyway ? You could setup a ftp server and give your friend access to it. The speed that your friend can download with depends of course on your upload speed. Still, ftp servers are the number one method to swap large files. The best thing, it´s not complicated to setup your own ftp server, just follow these easy steps:

1. download filezilla server, install and run it.
   
2. create a folder on your hard drive, e.g. /ftp/
3. move the files you want to trade into it
4. you need to setup a user account so your friend may connect to the server, to do so select edit / users

• click on add, enter a name for the user, click ok
• enable password and enter one that your friend will be using
• click on shared folders, add and select the folder on your hard drive that you created
• default settings allow your friend to read (download) files and list directories and subdirectories.
• if you want him to upload files as well you have to give im write permission as well. You could setup a /ftp/upload/ dir for write and delete permission and all others only for read permission
• that´s it. To test if it´s working fire up your ftp client and connect using the settings you entered at the ftp server. All you need to do is send your friend the login information and your current IP.

You could tighten security by adding your friends IP to the allowed IP addresses and make the connection process more comfortable by using a dynamic dns service which would mean you would not have to broadcast your IP to your friend everytime it changes.

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Author: Martin Brinkmann, Sunday May 7, 2006 -
Tags:ftp, ftp server, ftp tips

Responses so far:

1. Lobo Schmidt says:

   May 7, 2006 at 10:16 pm

   Thanks man, I’ve been searching how to do this for a lot of time and now I finnally has the answer.

   Reply
2. p5chin says:

   June 9, 2006 at 1:31 pm

   Hi,

   Thanks very much.
   Searched and dug google for this and finally found here.
   Also if possible let us know nuances in such sort of ftp access and stuff related to this.

   Reply