Patrick Ford said,
> On 19-Sep-00, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> You need an FTP *server* on one machine so you can connect to it with a
>> FTP program on the other. There are a few on Aminet
>>
>> amiftpd19.lha comm/tcp 48128 Easy-to-use FTP service daemon for Miam
>> ftpd2.lha comm/tcp 52224 FTPdaemon v2.0 for AmiTCP FtpDaemon.lha comm/tcp
>> 37888 FTP Daemon for AmiTCP with MultiUser su mlftpd_14.lha comm/tcp 38912
>> Ftpd v1.4 - Improved upload control rcftpd.lha comm/tcp 146432 Rc-ftpd -
>> the best ftpd for amiga ;-) wu-ftpd-37.21.lha comm/tcp 207872 FTP Server
>> for AmiTCP (bugfix release)
Urk! Look what you've done to my nicely formatted mail :-P
>> rcftpd is the only ones that's in current develpment.
> If I have two computers and I want access to one from the other via
> internet, are any of these suitable? All the ones I have looked at so
> far had limited or no security. One described its security as
> "security by obscurity" meaning nobody would think of trying that
> port number.
The only one I have any real experience of is wu-ftpd. This is a port of
the Unix version, which is in use on thousands of servers. It should be
very secure.
If the computer you're connecting from has a static IP address, you
could make any FTP server secure by only allowing connections to the FTP
ports from that one address.
> I do want to have server and client on both, and available whenever on
> line--not just mounted as the occasion arises, but they have to be
> well password protected. What do you recommend for that?
I'd take a look at wu-ftpd. As it's a Unix port you have to hug a tree
before editing half a dozen text configuration files. But once set up it
works well.
Neil
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