ftp serverForum: Networking Topic: ftp server started by: beep_gr Posted by beep_gr on July 16 2007,19:15
Hallo...Can you tell me how can I set my second computer to use it as ftp server so everyone can have access on my PC and transfer my files? I tried betaftpd but without results even under this way I need to write password. Can you help me... Can you give me a man page? I want to use only one directory without password to upload files. Thanks a lot... Posted by curaga on July 17 2007,08:11
Download the betaftpd tarball to get it's documentation..Unless "betaftpd --help" isn't clear enough that is.. Posted by wieselflink on July 21 2007,21:50
Sorry, but starting like " betaftpd --help " as described, will give me absolute no help, only the version and a line like " forked into the background ". It´s version 0.0.8pre17 that shows this result. And about " Download the tarball to get the documenation ", searching with words like " betaftpd tarball " in google will show me : < http://betaftpd.sourceforge.net/ > there i found a link to < http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cvstarballs/betaftpd-cvsroot.tar.gz > but it seems to be a dead link ( on 07-21-2007, 11 h in the evening ), so i tried to download the gzip file some lines above on this side. After a sucessfull download and unzipping this i got 17 files. But where´s now the documentation ? ? The readme file starts only with " Hmmmmm... :-) " and next line " 1. What is it? " . But no advice about how to configure. So can you please explain a bit more exactly ? Regards The only thing i know right now, is : 1) Install the program 2) Install / Add a new user, by using within a shell / commandline the " adduser " command, or from X rightclick, system, run Addusers and type in a name and password. The result is a new line in the file passwd which is located in the directory /etc and a new (home)directory for this user like /home/bob. For the new user bob there is new line in /etc/passwd file will look like bob:x:1002:50::/home/bob:/bin/bash 3) With the ftp client from another computer, connect to this computer with the running dsl-linux and betaftpd server 4) Type in the right username ( bob ) and right password ( test), you will have _full_ access ( download and upload ) to this directory / homedrive ( /home/bob). Only to this directory. But by walking with the ftp client along the tree you can see the whole other files on this dsl-linux server system. Until now i do not know how to prevent this. Maybe it helps you - beep_gr -if i know or have found more, i will exlain it here. Posted by curaga on July 22 2007,09:51
I've never used betaftpd, and it hasn't had any changes in years.I only suggested getting the tarball 'cause google couldn't find it's manpage.. You might be better off with another ftp server, one that actually has some docs written ;) I've used bftpd, if you can compile it, it's small and good.. |