Topic: FTP setup help

[John]

Yea !!

I've got e-smith up and running, i can now connect to the net using all of my computers.....now the next step FTP.

I need to set up an FTP server, but my e-smith machine doesn't have enough hard drive space to set it up, so I want to keep the files on my windoze machine, what do I do.

Can I use the FTP server in e-smith and point to the windoze drive (this is the way i'd like to do it)

Or do I use a windows FTP server such as serv-u and redirect the traffic to that machine (I don't want to do this)

I'm a newbie to linux so please be gentle..


thanx

John

[Charlie Brady]

John wrote:

> Yea !!
>
> I've got e-smith up and running, i can now connect to the net
> using all of my computers.....now the next step FTP.
>
> I need to set up an FTP server, but my e-smith machine doesn't
> have enough hard drive space to set it up, so I want to keep
> the files on my windoze machine, what do I do.
>
> Can I use the FTP server in e-smith and point to the windoze
> drive (this is the way i'd like to do it)...

I'd really suggest that you get a bigger hard drive for your e-smith server.

Some services can be relatively easily relocated to another server which is inside your network, but ftp isnt one of those, because it uses two independent TCP connections.

Will you really be serving up a lot of large files via ftp? Can you re-organise your computer to put a bigger hard drive in your server (to save you buying a new hard drive). These are some things that you can consider.

Regards

Charlie

[John]

I've got a lot of video files on my main system, and I use the ftp for the transfers.

It runs about 30gig so I don't want to get new drives for my little p100

right now I have serv-u running on my windoze machine (well not any more) is there a way I can keep serv-u running and then just have e-smith redirect to that.....as you can see I don't know what I'm talking about, but hopefully you get the idea.

thanx

John