Best ftp server?

droog · 2006-07-25 05:27:25

My brother lives across town and wants me to set up an ftp server, ive been looking at all of them but dont have any experience with them, so who uses what and why?

Insane-Boy · 2006-07-25 08:31:46

proftpd

user · 2006-07-25 08:44:41

Hi, arch maker! ;-)

This famous for hard to use, but it rule.
http://vsftpd.beasts.org/

http://www.kernel.org also use it.

tomk · 2006-07-25 09:39:08

All depends what you're looking for. I needed a quick-n-simple ftp server in a hurry last week, and after a quick look around, I got oftpd from the AUR, and had it built and up and running in about two minutes.

peterk0 · 2006-07-25 09:51:40

vsftpd all the way

Chman · 2006-07-25 14:32:07

I currently use Pureftpd (nice one), but Proftpd is nice too... I've heard good things about vsftp, although I never tried it.

djpharoah · 2006-07-25 15:20:11

I just use the ftp plugin for firefox. It works like a charm.

Chman · 2006-07-25 15:51:19

djpharoah wrote:

I just use the ftp plugin for firefox. It works like a charm.

It's about FTP servers, Fireftp is a client...

cactus · 2006-07-25 16:05:27

Friends don't let friends use ftp . It is a horrible protocol.
Set up a webdav server instead. As a bonus, you can get encryption via ssl.
Apache + ssl + webdav = great.

djpharoah · 2006-07-25 16:41:53

Chman wrote:

djpharoah wrote:
I just use the ftp plugin for firefox. It works like a charm.
It's about FTP servers, Fireftp is a client...

Whooopss...

Sorry musta had a brain fart.

/me runs away

slackhack · 2006-07-25 16:42:14

never tried webdav, but if you want quick and easy ftp, it's hard to beat proftpd. :thumbsup: if you need monster robustness, maybe vsftpd would be the way to go (never used it).

peterk0 · 2006-07-25 21:26:45

i believe vsftp is smaller, more compact then proftpd, but that only me maybe anyway vsftpd, proftpd and pure-ftps are all great choices, used all of them and now i'm with vsftp.

but cactus is right, ftp sux as protocol

droog · 2006-07-26 05:34:30

Thanks for all the help, I set up a samba server for my neighborhood with wireless and my brother is too far away to use it so i need a basic secure ftp server setup, the only one using it will be my brother so we can transfer files. ive been messing with vsftpd a little but it seems like overkill and a headache.

I'll look into the other ones suggested, thanks.

cactus how long does it take to set up a secure apache server? I'll google it and check it out, but it takes hours of sifting though everything to find what you need.

torindan2 · 2006-07-26 11:08:48

Or you can run sshd, and let your friens copy files with scp.
He also can connect either from mc (Right/Left menu -> Shell link) or winscp if he use "the other" OS.

lucke · 2006-07-26 11:39:51

Or just use sftp instead of scp.

drakosha · 2006-07-26 13:12:28

I'd not use scp since it doesn't know to resume aborted downloads/uploads. Please write what server did you choose and how did u set it up.

10x

cactus · 2006-07-26 17:15:00

droog wrote:

cactus how long does it take to set up a secure apache server? I'll google it and check it out, but it takes hours of sifting though everything to find what you need.

Shouldn't take too long. I thought there was a how to in the wiki..

EDIT: There is..and apparently, I wrote it. rofl
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Simple_WebDav_Setup

user · 2006-08-06 08:34:08

user wrote:

Hi, arch maker! ;-)
This famous for hard to use, but it rule.
http://vsftpd.beasts.org/
http://www.kernel.org also use it.

I regret that, after (vsFTPd 2.0.5)
it so easy ever!!! so i strongly recommend vsftpd for YOU.

PS:
1. today's lesson: another common fucking mistake, i didn't STFU without have experienced it.

2. after math: another common scene, mostly wrong advice go wild on forum..

nazgoul · 2006-08-09 17:03:43

I use proftpd with Gproftpd, it very easy since you have the GUI and the CLI .

I recommend it !!!

mac57 · 2006-08-18 03:50:43

I would strongly recommend PureFTP. It is a great package which builds and runs well on lots of platforms. I run it on several Linux releases and on Mac OS X as well. It is fast and reputed to be very secure.

There may be a much easier alternate to all of this though. If you have sshd running on your machine (easy to do if you don't), and assuming your brother is either running KDE or can run Konqueror, you can use its oddly name Fish protocol.

All that needs to happen is you have your machine running sshd, and your brother starts Konqueror on his machine and types the following into the address bar:

fish://username@your_ip_address

He will be prompted for password and then he is in. Konqueror is displaying a pane viewing your machine.

I use this quite often for file transfers. Note that ssh does impose overhead due to the encryption, but it is secure. I find that a transfer done over FISH/ssh takes about a third longer than the same transfer done directly with PureFTPd and an ftp client.

bigbob73 · 2006-08-18 14:58:13

mac57 wrote:

I would strongly recommend PureFTP. It is a great package which builds and runs well on lots of platforms. I run it on several Linux releases and on Mac OS X as well. It is fast and reputed to be very secure.
There may be a much easier alternate to all of this though. If you have sshd running on your machine (easy to do if you don't), and assuming your brother is either running KDE or can run Konqueror, you can use its oddly name Fish protocol.
All that needs to happen is you have your machine running sshd, and your brother starts Konqueror on his machine and types the following into the address bar:
fish://username@your_ip_address
He will be prompted for password and then he is in. Konqueror is displaying a pane viewing your machine.
I use this quite often for file transfers. Note that ssh does impose overhead due to the encryption, but it is secure. I find that a transfer done over FISH/ssh takes about a third longer than the same transfer done directly with PureFTPd and an ftp client.

This can be accomplished from a windows machine using rssh and winscp as well. Very secure and easy to set up.

pbw · 2006-08-19 10:11:02

sshfs works nicely as well for this. It'll mount the ssh filesystem locally for you.

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