HOW_TO: Setup an FTP server

[am_i_registered]

Hello,

I want to setup an FTP server on my linux box (Fedora 7) but I need a GUI to do so, because I'm not yet familiar with the shell.

I tried to do it using gProFTPd, and everything was ok when connecting from my Linux PC, but when I tried to connect from my Windows PC my FTP client could not establish connection.

If someone could help me with this, I would really appreciate it!

Thanks in advance, D.

[wydileie]

Pure-FTPd is easier to setup and if you don't really know what you are doing it is a much more secure server as well. There is a GUI overlay for configuration it at:

KcmPureFTPd - Home Page

but it has very good documention for itself at:

Pure-FTPd - Documentation

If you read through the the main page documentation it gives you lots of options to deal with and a very good description of all of them. Try that out and it might work better for you.

I set one up on my first Linux box I ever built with no problem at all.

[am_i_registered]

Thanks you for replying!

I'll give it a try but I'll have to switch to KDE.

Maybe it's better.. I've noticed that lots of programs support KDE instead of GNOME that I'm using right now.

[netstrider]

Remember that accessing it from a LAN you need to specify the LOCAL IP and not the external one. In other words if your pc is 192.168.0.2 then connect to it via that IP from the LAN. From external PC's not connected to the LAN you'll use your real internet IP, the real IP won't work from any PC within your local area network.