On Tuesday 18 April 2006 19:31, Mitchell Brown wrote: > This is all very confuzzling for me. > > I refuse to believe there is not a graphical FTP daemon out there for > Linux.
I can tell you don't have a proper understanding of what FTP is. Some of the questions you are asking are clearly confusing the difference between an FTP server, and an FTP client. The graphical tool you are looking for is the client - something like CuteFTP. You use the client tool to connect to a server and transfer files to/from said server. The server is totally different. It provides the environment that allows connections to it, and enforces permissions. The easiest way to set up an ftp server is to use shell accounts. So, once you have vsftp, or proftp, or XXXftp setup, anyone with a local shell account (i.e. Linux username/password), can connect to access either shared files, of personal files depending on how you set it up. Of course, this just scratches the surface of what is possible. Part of the delay getting the information you need, is because you seem to be unclear on the correct questions to ask. (not dis'ing you, just observing) Take the time to read through the various how-to's, guides and manuals for the various ftp servers out there. It'll pay off in the long run. But, you are asking questions, and based on your efforts and the responses you'll get, you'll start asking the "right" questions as a result. As for graphical tools to manage an ftp server - could could always try webmin - but you need to take care to set that up correctly so as not to open your network to attack. Not to mention that will also require properly understanding more than just ftp. I agree with the others who suggest simply using scp, or sftp. These are part of the OpenSSH libraries, and if you are running an SSH server you already have these at your fingertips with no additional setup. I host a few websites on my server, and I absolutely refuse to give them raw ftp access - they use sftp via the winscp client (that runs on windows). HTH. Shawn _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
