purchase an FTP server equipment / acquire a shareware FTP server equipment or swap to Linux the place this is installable as area of the distro. the way you place it up d[pends on what you opt for. Get a DSL line with fixed IP handle (so human beings can locate you) Get a DNS get right of entry to in case you decide on human beings to discover you by potential of call. communicate on your ISP for te 2 above. you will possibly be able to could exchange ISP in the journey that your cutting-edge one forbids being an FTP server. Set it up and watch rubbish look on it in the present day except you're making it shelter! purchase some greater disk to save the c**p that gets dropped onto your FTP server.
bo75007
2007-11-02 20:22:09 UTC
Yea there are a lot of them. You can get a free trial for Titan FTP server. Get it at download.com
I'm don't know of a free one off the top of my head.
2007-11-02 20:41:12 UTC
An FTP server is not necessary to share files on a network. There are other protocols that are better suited to doing this (eg. Samba, NFS, etc.).
Having an FTP server publicly available to the internet requires certain knowledge of security issues involved to avoid compromising your network and particularly the machine that runs the ftp server.
Additionally, many ISP's prohibit services such as ftp from being hosted by their customers. This is pretty much the only reason I don't host my own web/mail/dns/etc. services for my domains - I would have to go with a T1 line which still run about $1k/mo.
All that said, there are plenty of FTP server packages out there.
One is: http://www.proftpd.org/
For more see: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls=en&hs=URU&q=ftp+server&btnG=Search
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