Depends on which vintage of OSX you are running. FTP was dropped from
the sharing control panel a while ago but some variant of
sudo -s launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ftp.plist
will get it going again. The port issue will still exist along with
security problems with FTP in general. It's been a while since I checked
into this but in addition to opening port 21, once the connection is
established the FTP server will do all future connections through one or
more other ports chosen from a pool of available ports, usually ports
1024-5000. So you have to have in and out traffic allowed on all those
ports in your firewall, which is why security people frown on FTP. sftp
only needs port 22, which is the same port as ssh. Also ftp sends all
text in the clear such as usernames and passwords while sftp encrypts
everything. Just some stuff to google and think about. If you're just
doing this on your own internal network the sftp advantages disappear.
CB
On 1/3/14 8:16 AM, Kjsc Radio wrote:
There is two ways to enable it. One is to go in to the terminal and type in
a command which I forgot at the moment. But the other one is, to go in to the
server app if you have it. And that can also enable the service. Sent from my
iPhone
On 2 Jan 2014, at 2:20 pm, Chris Blouch <cblo...@aol.com> wrote:
Are you sure you want to do ftp and not sftp? ftp requires rather large swaths
of ports to be opened before it will work. How did you enable ftp on your mac?
CB
On 12/29/13 9:55 AM, Kjsc Radio wrote:
Hello, I am thinking about setting up an FTP server using the server on Mac.
I've done this before, but I have failed. Due to incorrect Port forwarding, I
have forward ports 21 and other ports to make the FTP server work. But when one
of my other machines connects to the network via FTP, it doesn't want to allow
the connection. Is there any other ports that I should forward?
Sent from my iPhone
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