sphoo
Apr 27, 2003, 14:08
So your middle-class family just got broadband for absolutely no reason other than your dad likes to watch hi-quality streaming video of barely legal teenage boys doing nasty things to each other. Thats all great, but you can also run an FTP server on your PC for all your friends to enjoy.
- Download it
Firstly, you need to download some FTP server software. After trawling through every piece of software from here to insanity I've chosen CesarFTP for its shear simplicity (and its free). Click here to download it. (http://www.aclogic.com/CesarFTP.exe). If you're using Internet Explorer, tell it to run from its current location. Otherwise, choose somewhere to save the file.
- Install it.
When the file has downloaded, it will run the install process straight away if you're using Internet Explorer, otherwise navigate to wherever you saved it and doubleclick on the icon.
During the installation, keep clicking Next until you're all clicked out, and the installation will very quickly install the software and tell you its going to now run it! Its running. Woo! Now what you need to do is set up a username and password, so only people that know them can use your FTP.
- Configure it.
When CesarFTP has opened, click on the 3rd icon from the left in the iconbar, its a picture of a man. A box will appear with lots of complicated stuff you don't care about. Click on the Add User button in the bottom left of the box. You can now enter some information about the user.
In User/Group Name, just put anything. "mp3" will do. Leave the Group part empty. Give the user a login name. SOMETHING OBSCURE IS GOOD. You don't want random people guessing your username and password, so dont use stuff like "mp3" or "audio" or "movies" or whatever. Use something funny, and then tick the Password box and set the password are something equally irrelivent to what you're sharing.
The last thing you need to do is tell the FTP server what files you want to share! Click on the button that says File Access Rights and another box appears. The top half of the screen is your computer, the bottom half is what the user will see on your FTP server. Simply Drap And Drop a folder from the top half to the bottom, and the user can now download stuff from it! The same can be done with individual files instead of whole folders, but folders are easiest.
Close that box, click OK on the Users box, and minimize the FTP window. It will put a little blue and red icon in your system tray (next to the clock in the corner), and it will run as long as you keep the PC on.
Its easy to make the server automatically start when you turn your PC on, just click on the 4th icon from the left on the icon bar and tick the Launch on system start box.
- Download it
Firstly, you need to download some FTP server software. After trawling through every piece of software from here to insanity I've chosen CesarFTP for its shear simplicity (and its free). Click here to download it. (http://www.aclogic.com/CesarFTP.exe). If you're using Internet Explorer, tell it to run from its current location. Otherwise, choose somewhere to save the file.
- Install it.
When the file has downloaded, it will run the install process straight away if you're using Internet Explorer, otherwise navigate to wherever you saved it and doubleclick on the icon.
During the installation, keep clicking Next until you're all clicked out, and the installation will very quickly install the software and tell you its going to now run it! Its running. Woo! Now what you need to do is set up a username and password, so only people that know them can use your FTP.
- Configure it.
When CesarFTP has opened, click on the 3rd icon from the left in the iconbar, its a picture of a man. A box will appear with lots of complicated stuff you don't care about. Click on the Add User button in the bottom left of the box. You can now enter some information about the user.
In User/Group Name, just put anything. "mp3" will do. Leave the Group part empty. Give the user a login name. SOMETHING OBSCURE IS GOOD. You don't want random people guessing your username and password, so dont use stuff like "mp3" or "audio" or "movies" or whatever. Use something funny, and then tick the Password box and set the password are something equally irrelivent to what you're sharing.
The last thing you need to do is tell the FTP server what files you want to share! Click on the button that says File Access Rights and another box appears. The top half of the screen is your computer, the bottom half is what the user will see on your FTP server. Simply Drap And Drop a folder from the top half to the bottom, and the user can now download stuff from it! The same can be done with individual files instead of whole folders, but folders are easiest.
Close that box, click OK on the Users box, and minimize the FTP window. It will put a little blue and red icon in your system tray (next to the clock in the corner), and it will run as long as you keep the PC on.
Its easy to make the server automatically start when you turn your PC on, just click on the 4th icon from the left on the icon bar and tick the Launch on system start box.