toolshed
07-02-2001, 01:37 AM
I am finally going to get rid of win2k .... my only obstacle is setting up an ftp server(i have one on win2k and need one now on my suse machine)....I need to know how to set an ftp server on my machine....
Do u know of any good ftp server programs...|| howto's..
Btw i am running suse 7.1, and using a Linksys router to route all my traffic...so i will also need a port# if any one has one for the ftp server program....
Thanks
[ 02 July 2001: Message edited by: toolshed ]
Craig McPherson
07-02-2001, 02:13 AM
Well, I don't think I've ever seen any "freeware" for Linux, but I've seen plenty of Free Software.
ProFTPD is probably the most popular among Linux users these days, and is regarded as being very secure. It works fine for me.
Wu-FTPD is probably the most widely used FTP server in the world (commercial UNIXes use it a lot, although many Linuxes use ProFTPD now), but there have been "several" security problems discovered in the past. This could be just because it has a larger userbase than any of the others, so more people look for security holes, or not. Whatever. It worked fine for me, though I use ProFTPD just to be safe.
There are dozens of others. I'd say, just use ProFTPD, because it will work fine for most people. Or if your distro already has Wu installed, use it. They're all basically the same in terms of functionality.
Your distro probably has one installed already. Consult the documentation. The process of setting one up is easy: install it, set it to run as either a standalone daemon or from a Superserver, and edit its configuration file to your liking.