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[dbzgod]

What are a list of free ftp servers for a win98 box? I am interested in setting up a media swap server for me and my friends. I currently have Serv-U ftp on a 30 day trial. So what do you think?

[ck]

IMHO Serv-U FTP is a great piece of software if you are willing to pay for the license. Check out War FTP Daemon if you want a freeware alternative.

Cheers

[dbzgod]

I heard WAR FTP has a few security glitches that can be fatal. Does anyone know about this?

[Tazzman]

Well, you could download a serial generator and...
But that would be illegal, and I didn't say a thing

[dbzgod]

Originally posted by Tazzman
Well, you could download a serial generator and...
But that would be illegal, and I didn't say a thing

lol

Any other suggestions?

[DigitalXWeb]

Originally posted by dbzgod


lol

Any other suggestions?

Sure, if you really like what you are currently using and it satisfies your needs.. Try purchasing a license key for it

[ck]

Originally posted by DigitalXWeb


Sure, if you really like what you are currently using and it satisfies your needs.. Try purchasing a license key for it

Yeah, especially when Serv-U is anytime better than M$ FTP $erver lol

[Lawrence]

I use GuildFTP for testing locally. Never used it in a live environment, so I'm not sure what it's like in terms of reliability and security, but it's very easy to use - http://www.nitrolic.com/.

[sjau]

I've been using War FTP Daemon for some years yet (currently up to 1.80.5) and haven't noticed any security issues. I like most about it:

1.) It's free
2.) User Management is great
3.) Easy to setup yet advanced options available
4.) $user and $date variables (for easy setting of unique upload folders)
5.) many more things...

what I don't like

1.) user database can't easily be backed up alone (I recommend making backup of whole War Directory)

[kmurrey]

We used the first one mentioned and seemed to work very well.

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Keith

[sjau]

just found out how users could be added by PHP onto WarFTP Daemon. If you run locally an FTP Server that might be interesting for you!
Here's the utilty:

ftp://ftp.jgaa.com/pub/products/Wind...386/utilities/

Ok, I just tried it.
When I tried first time, I got an error 13 : could not create user.
After I have taken a closer look, I saw the problem : when specifying a
group, you have to specify /system/Group
For instance, you want to create a user named dmartin with password 12345 in
group User. You system administration acount has login Sysadmin and password
67890. The command line is :

warftpdutil -bp 67890 adduser dmartin group=/system/User password=12345

b option tells the util not to prompt for missing arguments (uses default,
i.e. Sysadmin for sysadmin username).
p 67890 option specify the password of sysadmin user (67890)
adduser to add a user
dmartin is the new user's username
group=/system/User to add dmartin to the group User
password=12345 sets the password for user dmartin

All accounts informations are default (i.e. inherited from group User in
this case). It is a good thing if you have set the group file access
informations with macros : it automates the system pretty well.

If you need more help, just tell me : I'll be habby to help you!

-Sebastien Thueler

He posted that on the newsgroups