RE: FTP server

2006-02-18 Thread Bobby Hartsfield
de and start digging :-) ..:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:. Bobby Hartsfield http://acoderslife.com -Original Message- From: Jim Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2006 9:33 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: FTP server I use WS_FTP server for one of my clients...the main rea

Re: FTP server

2006-02-18 Thread Jim Wright
I use WS_FTP server for one of my clients...the main reason was that you can point it at any datasource to use as the user database, which makes it easy to integrate in to another application's security (assuming you don't have encrypted passwords). Does Filezilla do anything similar? ~~~

RE: FTP server

2006-02-18 Thread Snake
Gene6ftp, the best one I have used. Russ -Original Message- From: Mike Klostermeyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 February 2006 22:39 To: CF-Talk Subject: OT: FTP server Can anyone recommend an FTP server for Windows 2003? The easier to manage users/permissions the better (which

RE: FTP server

2006-02-17 Thread Bobby Hartsfield
Ditto on FileZilla ..:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:. Bobby Hartsfield http://acoderslife.com -Original Message- From: Rick Root [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 9:39 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: FTP server Russ wrote: > We're using FileZilla server. Still

Re: FTP server

2006-02-17 Thread Rick Root
Russ wrote: > We're using FileZilla server. Still in (and probably always will be) beta, > but we haven't had any issues yet, free, supports secure ftp. We're also using Filezilla Server on our windows server at work. Although I do think they'll eventually drop the "beta" =) rick

RE: FTP server

2006-02-17 Thread Russ
We're using FileZilla server. Still in (and probably always will be) beta, but we haven't had any issues yet, free, supports secure ftp. Russ > -Original Message- > From: Mike Klostermeyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 5:39 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: OT: F

RE: FTP Server

2005-10-11 Thread Burns, John D
ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: Matt Robertson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 1:06 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: FTP Server I take a couple of days off and come back to find a jihad is winding down... As a

Re: FTP Server

2005-10-11 Thread Matt Robertson
I take a couple of days off and come back to find a jihad is winding down... As a side note, I installed a copy of Serv-U on my first dedicated box and, within 24 hours, I was hacked, with little folders everywhere holding a text file saying I was owned by Lord So-and-So. Once I pulled my head ou

RE: FTP Server

2005-10-10 Thread Snake
t: Re: FTP Server On 10/10/05, Dave Watts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There's a fundamental difference between "targeted by hackers" and > "used by hackers". The former is bad, the latter not so much. If > someone compromises your machine and chooses to

RE: FTP Server

2005-10-10 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
Charlie, >Now, I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a network guy/system >administrator. Could I have set it up in an insecure manner? Sure. >It's possible. But I've also used bulletproof, IIS's FTP (bleh), and >filezilla...all with no issues (that I'm aware of, at least) :) > >So in my mind

Re: FTP Server

2005-10-10 Thread Charlie Griefer
On 10/10/05, Dave Watts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There's a fundamental difference between "targeted by hackers" and "used by > hackers". The former is bad, the latter not so much. If someone compromises > your machine and chooses to install an FTP server, his choice will be driven > by many of

RE: FTP Server

2005-10-10 Thread Mark A Kruger
Dave, A very common virus/trojan technique is to create new a serv-u.ini file as a part of the payload - which in the case of an existing serv-u server overwrites the old serv-u ini file and changes the configuration of the server. A quick seach at symantec security turned up this technique quite

RE: FTP Server

2005-10-10 Thread Dave Watts
> But that still doesn't make it a good thing, Dave. Yeah, compare > Windows and any other OS. which is more targeted? Windows. When you > see side-by-side comparisons of pros/cons, what's going to be in the > 'con' column? Targeted by hackers. Does that make Windows 'bad' per > se (and no, t

RE: FTP Server

2005-10-10 Thread Damien McKenna
One idea... freeSSHd (http://www.freesshd.com/) to give yourself an SSH login system, then use Active Directory to manage permissions. CoreFTP (http://www.coreftp.com/) is an FTP client with a free version that works via SSH, I'm in the process of setting it up for some peeps here and I'm pretty h

Re: FTP Server

2005-10-10 Thread Charlie Griefer
On 10/10/05, Dave Watts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Really surprised to even be asked the question of why using a tool > > that's popular with the hacker crowd is a bad thing. > > I'm sorry, but that's absurd. There are lots of tools that are popular with > the "hacker crowd" - these tools tend

RE: FTP Server

2005-10-10 Thread Dave Watts
> Really surprised to even be asked the question of why using a tool > that's popular with the hacker crowd is a bad thing. I'm sorry, but that's absurd. There are lots of tools that are popular with the "hacker crowd" - these tools tend to be best-in-class, and are chosen for that reason. Dave W

Re: FTP Server

2005-10-10 Thread Ken Ferguson
Exactly -- Serv-U isn't often reported to be a favorite target of hackers in any of the links provided or in any of the 1st page results I got Googling "Serv-U security holes". It's more often reported to be a favorite tool of hackers. Hackers used Serv-U because they could install it on your m

Re: FTP Server

2005-10-10 Thread Charlie Griefer
Dan: That may be...but the fact of the matter remains that I personally had put ServU on my machine, and shortly thereafter was hacked. Found a ridiculous amount of porn (really really bad porn...the worst porn I ever spent 20 straight hours watching) on my machine (along with the aforementioned

RE: FTP Server

2005-10-10 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
Charlie, >If I have the choice of 'product A' or 'product B', and product A is >documented as being overwhelmingly targeted by hackers, I think that >should be a factor in my decision. But hey, to each their own and >all. I think you may be misreading some of the Serv-U quotes. It's not "targete

RE: FTP Server

2005-10-10 Thread Russ
's popular with the hacker crowd. Not popular in that way that they use it, but popular because it's plagued with security holes. Russ -Original Message- From: Charlie Griefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 11:54 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: FTP Serv

Re: FTP Server

2005-10-10 Thread Charlie Griefer
On 10/10/05, Ken Ferguson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > None of that has anything necessarily to do with Serv-U itself. By your > logic, there are thousands of quality apps you should steer clear of for > no good reason. I went to work on a new client's server and found that > there was an instance

Re: FTP Server

2005-10-10 Thread Charlie Griefer
s and even home pcs. > > -mark > > > -Original Message----- > From: Charlie Griefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 10:11 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: FTP Server > > > the fact that it's popular with the hacker crowd? > &g

Re: FTP Server

2005-10-10 Thread Ken Ferguson
None of that has anything necessarily to do with Serv-U itself. By your logic, there are thousands of quality apps you should steer clear of for no good reason. I went to work on a new client's server and found that there was an instance of qmail installed without their knowledge sending out sp

RE: FTP Server

2005-10-10 Thread Mark A Kruger
some servers and even home pcs. -mark -Original Message- From: Charlie Griefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 10:11 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: FTP Server the fact that it's popular with the hacker crowd? How about because i was running serv-u and one day i

Re: FTP Server

2005-10-10 Thread Charlie Griefer
the fact that it's popular with the hacker crowd? How about because i was running serv-u and one day i inexplicably had FTP accounts open on drives A-Z with read/write/execute/delete/procreate access to all (and oddly enough, i didn't create any of those accounts). How about one of the previous p

Re: FTP Server

2005-10-10 Thread Ken Ferguson
I'd be very interested in hearing why exactly you seem to think that this is a negative for Serv-U??? --Ferg Charlie Griefer wrote: >serv-U's also popular with the hacker crowd :) > >i've been running the filezilla server for a while now with no >problems. caveat...i'm running it on my home ma

RE: FTP Server

2005-10-07 Thread Snake
and thus a lot of virus scanners will pick it up, or if you do get hacked you might not notice if your running serv-u anyway. But aside form that, I did like serv-u. -Original Message- From: Seth Bienek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 07 October 2005 19:58 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: FTP Serv

Re: FTP Server

2005-10-07 Thread Phill B
Charlie is right. Serv-u is very bad and unsafe in my opinion and loved by the hacker crowed. I use Gene6 FTP and it kicks a**! http://www.g6ftpserver.com/ It does every thing and more. Super easy to set up. Give it a look. On 10/7/05, Charlie Griefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > serv-U's also p

Re: FTP Server

2005-10-07 Thread Rick Root
Charlie Griefer wrote: > serv-U's also popular with the hacker crowd :) Heh. We found Serv-U running on one of the machines here and we didn't install it ;) > i've been running the filezilla server for a while now with no > problems. caveat...i'm running it on my home machine and basically > ju

Re: FTP Server

2005-10-07 Thread Charlie Griefer
serv-U's also popular with the hacker crowd :) i've been running the filezilla server for a while now with no problems. caveat...i'm running it on my home machine and basically just use it for personal FTP. it's not under a business-type load. 'free' didn't used to be a bad thing :) On 10/7/05

RE: FTP Server

2005-10-07 Thread Seth Bienek
Serv-U is a popular FTP server that allows you to set up access based on users and groups you can create and manage yourself: http://www.serv-u.com/ Hope this helps, Seth > -Original Message- > > Can anyone recommend a third party FTP server that runs on > Windows that has a more granu

RE: FTP Server

2001-05-25 Thread Costas Piliotis
War Ftp Daemon is free... Not as easy as serv-u, but the price is good... -Original Message- From: Dylan Bromby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 6:23 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: FTP Server i've used serv-u for 5 years. it's excellent. and

RE: FTP Server

2001-05-24 Thread Dylan Bromby
i've used serv-u for 5 years. it's excellent. and DIRT cheap. -Original Message- From: Duane Boudreau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 11:17 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: OT: FTP Server All, Can anyone suggest a decent and moderatly priced (~ $250) FTP server that will

Re: FTP Server

2001-05-23 Thread Dan Blickensderfer
Serv-U FTP http://www.cat-soft.com - Original Message - From: "Duane Boudreau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 2:16 PM Subject: OT: FTP Server > All, > > Can anyone suggest a decent and moderatly priced (~ $250) FTP server that > will