Public FTP

[oudiophile]

I am setting a a public FTP on my PC for Easy access to files. Anything that anyone needs hosted?

[citrixmeta]

u think it can hold icrontic download section?

utils etc..

[drowd]

yeah, what sort of upstream do you get? cuz even if it isnt much, maybe you can at least seed some torrents . . .

[oudiophile]

whatever Comcast will allow.

[kryyst]

The answer to that would be Sweet F-A.......It's ok for normal use set up a web page that sorta stuff. But if you have high access file transfers there's a good chance it'll kill your bandwidth

[versello]

whatever Comcast will allow.

Unless you got a tricked out connection, it'll be 256Kbps with Comcast... roughly ~28KB/sec

Psss, get some anime babes up there tho ;)

[oudiophile]

Sorry all, but its not gonna happen. Setting up FTP behind a firewall is )*&^*_$^ IMPOSSIBLE! Argh.


Hm... I DO have 25MB of free space with comcast. Cant do much, but it Can be used. Send me what needs to be DLed by the Masses!

[drowd]

that sounds good. thanks for all your offers for help. incidentally, is there anything we can do to help with the firewall? is the firewall through comcast? or is it from hardware (ie. linksys router, etc). cuz maybe we could help you do that if you arent familiar with port forwarding or DMZ . . .

[oudiophile]

yeah, its embedded in the router. Wireless. I do know port owarding, and i messed with it for 3 hrs. hmm. Any advice?

[drowd]

what brand of router is it?

[oudiophile]

linksys

[drowd]

did you try just putting your pc's ip address in the DMZ? i would say that you are unlikely to get any attacks, i certainly never have and my main rig is in the DMZ and always has been. it makes newsgrousp, BT, and emule all transfer well cuz all ports to your pc are open. and i suppose it does make you more vulnerable, but like i said, i doubt very seriously anything would happen. but, if you are uncomfortable leaving it in the DMZ, then just try putting it in there for a short while and see if you cant get your ftp to work. because if it does work in the dmz, then its most likely a port forwarding problem. but if not, there might be some other problem (isp, etc) that you might need to deal with . . .

[versello]

I use ComCast and a Linksys router... port forwarding 21 for FTP; works great. Something's fishey.

[oudiophile]

Thats EXACTLY what I did. Hmmm.... What FTP Server do you use? I used Serv-U. I also have a comcast router.

[versello]

Thats EXACTLY what I did. Hmmm.... What FTP Server do you use? I used Serv-U. I also have a comcast router.

I use BulletProof FTP.

I used to use Serv-U, albeit it's a lot more technical to set up... plus it crashes a lot :/

You have a ComCast router btw? Thought it was LinkSys?

[drowd]

i ALSO use bulletproof ftp server and absolutely love it. nothing could be more easy to understand while still providing you with advanced options. and which router do you have? linksys or comcast?

[oudiophile]

It is a linksys router with all of the comcast frills. Comcast is painted all over it. Ill have to try to use BulletProof FTP. One more thing. If i was to access my files from another PC outside my network, how would I do it? I don't want to mess with DNS, and typing in "192.xxx.xx.xx" certainly wont work...

[versello]

You would type in the IP address your router obtained (eg. - 68.83.xxx.xxx). If port forwarding is set up correctly, it'll forward data to your FTP server on your home network (eg. - 192.168.x.x)

[stoopid]

I dropped this into networking because I figure others that read this section might also be able to help...