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[Zanoma]

Hi folks

I just wonderd what sort of softwear is there avalible to run a ftp server from my home computer
need something easy too use.

cheers Alan.

[Zanoma]

the one i was thinking about was GuildFTPd is that one any good ?

[kitz]

Ive used Serve U for many years  without any problems.

Theres a tutorial for setting it up and link to the free download (for home users only) here:-

 http://www.kitz.co.uk/tute/ftp1.htm

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Ive used Serve-U for so long (even before I had adsl) Ive never had reason to use any other so cant comment on GuildFTPd I'm afraid.
I know mr_chris tried another ftp server a few months ago, and ended up going back with Serve-U since it had more permission settings and options etc.

Because of all the different permission options it may not be the easiest to set up though - hence the 5 page tutorial :/

[Zanoma]

Yeah well am newbie with this sort of thing but i will look into it. I needed it inorder to make a tunnel for gaming reasons inorder to use tcp protocol so its a big task for a first year ccna level 1 blog like my self here, theres alot to take in security being the big thing really.But thanks for you input kitz it's nice chatting with you again

cheers Alan.

[mr_chris]

I tried the Microsoft FTP server as I had IIS installed, but that didn't give me enough control.

There's also FileZilla server, which is free, and appears to have as much configurability as Serv-U, and to be honest, it doesn't seem as robust - I really liked Serv-U but wanted to try something that was free.

However, I'm not 100% sure about how good it is - had a few transmission errors which I shouldn't be having really.

[soms]

This is a good little program for running a FTP and TFTP server. Fairly old now I expect but gets the job done nicely and very easy to set up. Its called the 3COM Daemon.

Has a pane where you see the server transactions take place and also has some good config features such as running from the task bar, setting up usernames and so on.

http://www.oldversion.com/program.php?n=3cdaemon

[Zanoma]

Hi again mr_chris

I tryed looking into that vpn for gaming but i think i will have problems when it comes to bradcasting udp packets hence why i wanted to try to look into another way around the problem and came up with using a ftp protocol as it supports my needs.

My game i play use's mailing ports hence why i wanted to use ftp as it fits my needs only problem i have read about that is if the request for a large amout of data stream the control stream sits idle which i think will lead to a buffer overflow cmd but not sure about that, but i think thats changeable.
the other problem is getting it to redirect to 127.0.0.1, thanks for your input on softwear Mr_chris /soms will look into it when i get sometime

cheers Alan.