Sharing in the System Preferences lets you turn this on. For Leopard it's the Remote Login service. This only allows sftp not ftp since ftp is very insecure and pretty much asking to be hacked. If you must run ftp you should do it on a separate isolated box. To turn on plain old FTP you'll need to turn on Filesharing in the Sharing system preference and then click the Options button. In there you'll find a checkbox to share via AFP, FTP or SMB and a series of checkboxes to enable or disable certain users from connecting this way. All this assume Leopard. Not sure exactly what it was like for 10.4 anymore but I could check if you need that.
CB Dane Trethowan wrote: > Hi! > > I know of a friend who does this, I think he uses something called > Wumpus? Excuse my spelling. I think there's also another FTP server > application called Captain Ftp. > > Further to this, OS10 Leopard has a small FTP Server built-in, that is > to say you can access your Mac with a FTP client and transfer files > from there to say other machines on your network, - not recommended > for Internet use for obvious security reasons -. You can turn this on > under Sharing in System Preferences. > > Finally, I'm sure I read an article somewhere which gave specific > instructions on turning your Mac into a fully fledged FTP server using > a whole string of commands in Terminal but I didn't persist with this. > > > On 19/08/2009, at 8:56 AM, Michael Huckabay wrote: > > >> I'm kerius if enyone know's if there is a way to set up and use a ftp >> server by a mac. Dus enyone know of software I can do this with and >> dus enyone know how do go about doing this? >> Your help would be grateful and thank's. >> >> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
