First off, my apologies to both Gordon and Lynn for all the rejected e-mails sent to the list from an unauthorized address. You can reject them. I found out why this was happenning, and the issue has been corrected.
OK, so here’s the deal. I have a copy of OSX server, although I’ve not really messed with it much yet. The little bit I have looked somewhat overwhelming. Basically, all I wanna do is set up on the basic standard port 21, an FTP server where people can download files/folders from my drive. I want to disable anonymous access, so that users have to have a valid account to log in. I further want them to be Crooted (or, jailed, as some call it,) into this directory of my choosing. I however do want them to be able to recurse sub folders. So, in other words, I want them Crooted into X folder, but I want them inside X folder to be able to also have read access to folders A, B, and C, located underneath folder X, and to inherit all permissions down the hierarchy from folder X. I do not however want them to be able to go any higher up than folder X. I hope that makes sense. I do not want to grant write access or delete access or anything of the like. This is only going to be used for downloading files, and absolutely no more. Yes, I know about file sharing over the network. That’s not why I’m doing this. I need it set this way so that someone half way across the country from me, for example, could log in via ftp and get whatever they need, when they need it. I already do have a top level domain name which is pointing to my IP address, so that’s not even an issue. I have resolvers in place, don’t worry. That being said, I’ve not set up any sort of resolvers through my OSX server software. This is all being done through an A Record through the dns settings at my local domain registrar. Trust me, it works. I can ping the domain and see it resolving to my correct IP address with no packet loss, so that’s fine. I just need the actual ftp side of it set up. I also do know about openning port 21 on my Linksys WRT 54S router, and forwarding it to the private IP address associated with my Mac running OSX server. That’s already been done. Like I say, I’m pretty much good to go. I just need to know how to actually set up the server itself in the way I described. I know there are a few other software sollutions out there for doing ftp servers, and I know that OSX even has one built in that will work to some extent, but most of them only allow for free, 3 or 4 users. I may wind up needing more than that. Plus, if down the road I ever want to enable other servers like Mail, or apache web http or such, I’d rather do it this way to start with so that I can get a handle on things. I figure once I know how to set one of these up, it’ll make things easier going forward, as I’ll betcha there’s probably somewhat of a pattern to doing it. Anyway, if Gorgon, Lynn, or anyone else at all on here thinks they can help, I’ll be willing to hear you out, and see if we all can work together here to get me up and running. Thank you. Chris. <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
