FTP seems like a natural way to go. If I leave a FTP server running on my workstation at home, then I can do what I need from the client's machine. Most clients' machines will have a FTP client, and I can reach my server at home through a domain name that maps to my dynamically assigned IP address.
But I have not yet found a FTP server which I can install and run without getting a Masters Degree in FTP server configuration. Well, perhaps I exaggerate. But since my needs are simple I dream of finding a FTP server which is as simple to configure as my need.
I need one userid/password which can access one directory on my workstation -- that's all. Clear text is good enough; encryption not needed. Ideally I should be able to complete the configuration of my FTP server by telling it just those two things: 1. the userid/password; 2. the directory.
But I do not yet know of a FTP server which I can install without having to understand several issues faced by the administrator of an enterprise-scale FTP server. The installations of the FTP servers which I have tried so far (wu-ftpd and vsftpd on Linux and FileZilla on Windows) require that I know things that I don't know and probably will never need to know -- except to tell these multi-featured FTP servers that I don't need their features.
Does anybody know of such a truly simple FTP server?
I should acknowledge that my problem might be in the protocol I'm trying to use. FTP, as fully specified, might be pretty fancy. A server such as I need (perhaps implementing only: get, put, and ls) might not qualify as a FTP server.
Thank you, Rich Hammer
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