Post #227,722
10/3/05 10:57:34 AM
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Looking for (free) personal FTP server for Windows
Must run on W2K or XP. Doesn't have to be fancy, with all sorts of eyecandy; a command line interface will do (although...eye candy is OK...if done with some class).
Any recommendations? I saw FileZilla on Google, but I've never heard of it before....
thanx-
jb4
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Post #227,725
10/3/05 11:03:36 AM
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Xitami seemed fine to me.
It an httpd and ftpd. Free, easy to configure, worked well for me, but I haven't used it in a while.
[link|http://www.xitami.com/|Xitami].
Cheers,
Scott.
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Post #227,734
10/3/05 11:52:16 AM
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You might think about using sftp instead
OpenSSH has a Windows version and supports sftp/scp. Available [link|http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=103886&package_id=111688|here]. Make sure you tell it to install the server. Documentation at [link|http://sshwindows.sourceforge.net/|this link] Can use winscp or filezilla as clients.
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Post #227,766
10/3/05 1:37:45 PM
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So If I already have Cygwin installed
on both the "client" and the "server" all that's I'd really need is to download Cygwin's ssh (or sftp) and use that instead?
jb4
shrub●bish (Am., from shrub + rubbish, after the derisive name for America's 43 president; 2003) n. 1. a form of nonsensical political doubletalk wherein the speaker attempts to defend the indefensible by lying, obfuscation, or otherwise misstating the facts; GIBBERISH. 2. any of a collection of utterances from America's putative 43rd president. cf. BULLSHIT
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Post #227,788
10/3/05 2:41:47 PM
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I would think so.
Not used cygwin myself, but that would seem reasonable.
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Steve
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Post #227,774
10/3/05 2:19:16 PM
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I'm using FireZilla under XP
You can set up user accounts, folders, and IP filter. There's also speed limit settings so you can throttle the transfer rate. It works well for me, YMMV.
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Post #227,781
10/3/05 2:35:07 PM
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FireZilla? Or FileZilla?
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Post #227,835
10/3/05 5:26:05 PM
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had chinese for lunch
Darrell Spice, Jr. [link|http://spiceware.org/gallery/ArtisticOverpass|Artistic Overpass]\n[link|http://www.spiceware.org/|SpiceWare] - We don't do Windows, it's too much of a chore
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Post #227,810
10/3/05 4:26:23 PM
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Thanks, Spice
I set that one up, and it appears to work...except:
1) It is butt stupid in handling multiple drives. You can set it up to share multiple drives, but if you don't alias them, they are unaccessible. Which brings us to...
2) It, like all other FSF/GNU/Bazaar-type software, is completely and utterly devoid of documentation. If you don't already know everything there is to know about FTP (in this case), you're SOL. The solution to the multiple drive problem is to set up an alias, which is undocumented except for two sentences in the server FAQ.
3) It doesn't handle Clearcase volumes properly; it can't see any of the files or directories on the volume. That might be because I pointed the server at the MVFS mapped drive; I may have to point it at the VOB mount point pseudo-drive instead (more to come on that later).
Those annoyances aside, it seems to work OK. Big test is tonight, when I try to tunnel through both my and Big Giant Corp's firewalls to see if I can get a file...
jb4
shrub●bish (Am., from shrub + rubbish, after the derisive name for America's 43 president; 2003) n. 1. a form of nonsensical political doubletalk wherein the speaker attempts to defend the indefensible by lying, obfuscation, or otherwise misstating the facts; GIBBERISH. 2. any of a collection of utterances from America's putative 43rd president. cf. BULLSHIT
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Post #227,816
10/3/05 4:38:00 PM
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Follow Up: The trick with ClearCase is...
...to use the MVFS mount point (generally the M: drive, but ymmv, as this is configurable) as the drive, select the view you want access to as the subdirectory (e.g. share the path M:\\my_view), then alias that to some pseudo-directory on the "home" directory. (In this above example, I shared "M:\\my_view", and aliased it to the "view" directory on my home drive D: -- note that there is no real "D:\\view" directory on my D: drive).
HTH
jb4
shrub●bish (Am., from shrub + rubbish, after the derisive name for America's 43 president; 2003) n. 1. a form of nonsensical political doubletalk wherein the speaker attempts to defend the indefensible by lying, obfuscation, or otherwise misstating the facts; GIBBERISH. 2. any of a collection of utterances from America's putative 43rd president. cf. BULLSHIT
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Post #227,818
10/3/05 4:41:53 PM
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There is OSS with excellent documentation
OK, maybe not Filezilla (which I've used to store pictures from a Cognex Insight networked vision system, which uses standard TCP protocols such as ftp and telnet), but a couple examples:
1. Subversion (free book, and they seem to be keeping it updated)
2. TortoiseSVN
3. Python
4. Lua (free book)
5. Setting up gcc to work with Eclipse on Windows to cross compile and download to Philips LPC ARM-7 chips (thanks to one person who has put together very detailed PDFs on this -- I'm working through this now)
6. The Trac documentation is a little scattered, but the Windows install directions were pretty good - once I figured out I couldn't use Python 2.4
To be fair, bad documentation is the normal rule. Interesting, of my six example of stuff I've used, the majority aren't GPL.
Tony
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