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How do I setup an FTP server?
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If I want to file share with people. How can I setup an FTP server from my computer? DO I need to download something, or is it true that there is already a utility that will allow me to do so on OS X currently? Please explain to me how to do this or lead me in the right direction.
Or wuld it be better to use a program like ProFTPD so I can see who accesses my files and what they do download and upload? What do you guy's recommend?
(Last edited by Jbroad572; Aug 24, 2003 at 01:40 AM.
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Originally posted by Jbroad572:
If I want to file share with people. How can I setup an FTP server from my computer? DO I need to download something, or is it true that there is already a utility that will allow me to do so on OS X currently? Please explain to me how to do this or lead me in the right direction.
Or wuld it be better to use a program like ProFTPD so I can see who accesses my files and what they do download and upload? What do you guy's recommend?
Go to System Preferences, go to Sharing, turn on FTP Access. That's it. It's already built into OS X.
For people to connect to you, they will need your IP address. This is the same thing as your network address. In the same preference pane click on the text just beside "Network Address", that will change to a number, something like 255.255.255.255.
To connect use an ftp program, or ftp on the command line, or ftp through the connect option in the finder.
You can set up users for ftp by adding users to your computer. They will only be able to access whatever that user could access if they were logged into your computer normally.
You can view ftp activity by opening up the logs located in /var/log/ftp.log (/var is invisible in the finder, use either the terminal, or the go menu->go to folder option to get to /var)
That should get you started.
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ok so how do I setup a user name and password for them to login? Also, is that ftp log in real time so as it's happening I can see it?
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Originally posted by Jbroad572:
ok so how do I setup a user name and password for them to login? Also, is that ftp log in real time so as it's happening I can see it?
You add a regular account, (one can you login to) in the Accounts pane of sys prefs. The username and password of that is what they use to login to FTP.
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It uses your system's user accounts. If you want FTP accounts to not be the same as the system accounts, you'll have to find a third-party FTP program, or figure out how to set up ftpd's configuration file for separate logins. (I have no idea how to do this.)
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Originally posted by tooki:
It uses your system's user accounts. If you want FTP accounts to not be the same as the system accounts, you'll have to find a third-party FTP program, or figure out how to set up ftpd's configuration file for separate logins. (I have no idea how to do this.)
tooki
try this
http://jeanmatthieu.free.fr/pureftpd/
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That's a good one for SFTP, for regular FTP CrushFTP is really good.
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