FTP Server Software

mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
edited May 2006 in Science & Tech
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.

Comments

  • EMTEMT Seattle, WA Icrontian
    edited April 2006
    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.
  • drasnordrasnor Starship Operator Hawthorne, CA Icrontian
    edited April 2006
    Filezilla FTP server. 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:
  • Sledgehammer70Sledgehammer70 California Icrontian
    edited April 2006
    yeah SmartFTP is thee best program I have found easy to use.. and full of options :)
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited May 2006
    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.
  • EMTEMT Seattle, WA Icrontian
    edited May 2006
    drasnor wrote:
    Filezilla FTP server. 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.
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited May 2006
    w00t got it up and running. :)
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