[derekryan]

I am looking to setup a FTP server in Panther. Does anyone have any suggestion of a free or shareware ftp server, that is stable and has multiple users (not guests) accessing one directory? I don't want to have multiple users accessing their own directories. I need many users to access the same directory. Each user will have a password but they will access the same directory.

I heard CrushFTP is popular and cheap. Anything else?

I'm looking also in PureFTPd.

I want to run it in client version of Panther, not server.

Any experiences? anytjing else I should look into?
Derek

[kampl]

Not to be punk, but what is wrong with the built-in ftpd that ships in OS X? I believe you could just enable FTP in the sharing perferences and chroot all of your users to whatever directory you like. I don't recall the config from the top of my head, but it can be done.

[derekryan]

I don't really want to create many users. I want to have one or two users that can do multiple log-ins. I would give the user name/password to my clients and they will be able to log in. Sometimes two or three clients will log in at the same time with the same name and password. I'm not sure if this is possible with build in ftp server?

[badtz]

i'm also in the same bind.

the closest thing would be ftp-config [check versiontracker] ... ?

[ginoledesma]

The included FTP server for Mac OS X isn't all that bad, except that Apple didn't provide an easy-to-use interface to configure it. It works in its default mode, but it would be nice to have control over it through the System Preferences or some other way.

Regardless, if you're serious about trying out another FTP server, I'd recommend PureFTPd, which has an easy-to-use interface as well as the features you wanted. One of my favorites has always been ProFTPD for its (relative) ease of use, though I've only used this exclusively on Linux-based systems.