"Samuel W. Heywood" wrote:
...
> Do any of you know if it is possible to set up a DOS machine to act as
> an FTP server? If such is at all possible, I suppose it would involve
> setting up your DOS operating system with multi-tasking abilities.
>
> Does anyone know about this?
>
> Sam Heywood
Sam,
The only ftp servers I can find come integrated with NCSA or CUTCP
telnet. I haven't tried NCSA but CUTCP works well. I use the ftp
server frequently to transfer files over my LAN. The telnet.apm package
that comes with arachne is enough to use the ftp feature, but you need
to comment out the passfile="nul" line from config.tel, which disables
passwords, or alternatively, you can obtain the full CUTCP package and
use the telpass.exe program in there which generates a password file
with encrypted passwords for each user. In order to use the generated
password file you would do something like passfile="c:\arachne\passfile"
in config.tel.
I you were hoping to use this to offer anonymous ftp to internet users,
I must warn you that as far as I can tell there is not much security to
this server. Once a user logs in they will have access to every drive
and file on your system. The ftp servers for other operating systems
normally restrict users to a "server root" directory which their client
cannot go above.
Since the ftp server is integrated into the telnet client you can use
telnet sessions while the ftp server works in the background. You may
also be able to get pktmux working if you use dos multitasking, but I
don't think it works with the Arachne browser (from what I've heard).
Also if someone is doing an ftp transfer and another ftp session is
requested it will be ignored. Only one at a time is supported AFAIK.
The above mentioned CUTCP package is available at
http://www.oldskool.org/~tvdog/internet.html
Wes
