FTP w/ Router

[Incubus0223]

Alright I just took my bro's old HDD, formatted it, so now I have XP on my 120 GB HDD, and a clean 15 so GB HDD.......so what i was thinking was just installing an FTP

Now my question: what do people recommend for FTP server/software, as well as how do I make it work with a router, i have Microsoft Broadband Networking Wireless Base Station, and on my PC using a wireless USB

Any help is appreciated

 

[Grisu]

I'm not sure I understand your topology correctly, so I made a sketch. I think you got a Router / Wireless Access Point that also manages you connection to the internet, right? also you want your ftp-server to be accesible from the internet.

Your Router is propably doing some NAT (Network Address Translation) since you have only one public IP-Adress (usually). so in order to be able to access your server from the internet your router must redirect incoming calls to ftp-ports (20 & 21 by default) to your server. most routers allow you to do that via a web-interface, you should find help on how to do this in the manual for your router.

for the server I'd personally use Linux, since having a full windows installation just for ftp seems like a bit of overkill to me. furthermore, I don't know any free windows servers. but if you have never used linux before it will take some time getting used to it and installing the server (it's not that hard though)

I hope I have understood your questions correctly

Hope this helps a bit.

 

[mettux]

I think i know what you're talking about, (I'm kinda guessing you want to create a server on your computer that can be accessed over the internet) and i have that setup on my comp. Doing this requires you have broudband internet (aka. not dial up) and don't mind leaving your computer on whenever you think you'll use it away from home (or all the time like i do). What you need is the ftp server itself (i use serv-U admin, but i think i had to pay for that, google for freeware ftp server software, i think there's a couple floating around. Once that's done, you need to set it up, which i'm not going to explain, look in the help file. then finnally you may want to have an easier way of getting to it over the internet (as opposed to something like 139.142.50.10), you should head over to dyndns.org, create an account and then create a dynamic dns. you'll need to re-register the dns every once in a while since its a free service, but once that's done you can get on just about any computer and go to ftp://yoursite . ath.cx or whatever the extension might be.

wow, that was a longer explination than i planned on

 

[mettux]

Oh yeah, you also have to go into your router and forward port 21. if you need help, PM me.