FTP Server Software [Archive]

mmonnin

1 May 2006, 3:08am

I have been wanting to run a FTP server on one of my machines in the apartment for personal use but I have no idea what software to use.

Does anyone have any suggestions on a free program where I can run a FTP server on an extra computer.

I would like to be able to limit the upload speed per client since I only have around 40-50kb upload speed on this cable connection.

EMT

1 May 2006, 3:36am

I'd go with SFTP these days... FTP is simply 100% insecure (and has complex port problems to boot). But neither has great cheap servers. I run cygwin's (www.cygwin.com) sshd to serve SFTP, and it is free, but it takes a bit of time to get set up.

drasnor

1 May 2006, 4:27am

Filezilla FTP server (http://filezilla.sourceforge.net). I'm pretty sure it supports SFTP too. If you're really lazy Microsoft IIS has an FTP server but it doesn't support SFTP.

-drasnor :fold:

Sledgehammer70

1 May 2006, 4:50am

yeah SmartFTP is thee best program I have found easy to use.. and full of options :)

mmonnin

1 May 2006, 5:15am

I just deleted cygwin from my laptop when I was trying to get MySQL to work with C++. Not going there.

2k is installed, I just want another program.

Ok I got FileZilla.

Sledge: Does SmartFTP have a server version? I want something to host the files.

EMT

1 May 2006, 9:06pm

Filezilla FTP server (http://filezilla.sourceforge.net). I'm pretty sure it supports SFTP too.

That looks like a cool program... it looks like SFTP might only work in the client though, not the server. Maybe if you get the SSL stuff working you can do secure transfers.

mmonnin

2 May 2006, 4:24am

w00t got it up and running. :)