> I've done no FTP serving up to this point. > I had a client yesterday who asked about being able to > have a way to access documents on her PC at work > and at home, and I thought of an FTP site on my server. > (She's almost completely computer illiterate and doesn't > want to spend much money.) > > That would mean she'd have to upload and download > documents...not the best solution...I thought about VPN > or something like that (that I've never dealt with either), > but that seemed more complicated and probably more costly...
There are any number of other options you might look at - you could even just build a CF application that handles her uploads and downloads! (Not that that would be the best solution in most cases, just thought I'd throw it out there.) But you could look at WebDAV (when properly configured, you can easily access and change MS Office documents through it, for example). You might even consider the idea of portable storage - for example, those USB drives you can get now. That would certainly be an easy solution to implement, and you wouldn't have to deal with any software at all, in most cases. > I tried to setup an FTP on Win2K, but even with > creating a User, assigning permissions, and > passwords, etc., I couldn't get in with that User's > password...seems like, based other comments in this > thread that each user has to have their own port... > rather than the default port of 21...didn't know > that. Maybe that's the problem. > > Does IIS FTP not have the capability of allowing > many users on one port? There's only so many ports > available to use! Right? I'm not sure what the original poster meant by that, exactly. No, IIS's FTP server supports multiple users on the same port. I don't know how well it scales, but it can support more than one user at least! There could, of course, be any number of other problems you might have run into. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
