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Resolved Win 7 FTP Server

Discussion in 'Networking (Hardware & Software)' started by Whacker, 2010/10/15.

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    Whacker

    Whacker Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    Hi All, I’m looking for help on how to go about setting up access from the Internet (WAN) to my home network.

    The main reason for this is, I want to be able to share my files with family and friends. Some of these file will be large (100mb - 2gb) home movies and photo slide shows.

    I have the following setup:

    Cisco Cable DPC/EPC2425 DOCSIS 2.0 Wireless Residential Gateway with Embedded Digital Voice Adapter, issued by my ISP, with a 15mb service. I also have my phone service on the same unit.

    I have my main computer (spec on profile) connected via the RJ45 100mb wired connection (30 meter run approx)

    I have a Iomega 1TB Screen Director Media Centre connected to the Cisco Router via a 100mb straight patch cable (2 meter run).

    I have a second computer (basic Pentium 4 for surfing the web) connected via a Atlantic Scientific wireless dongle issued by my ISP. Distance is 8 meters approx.

    I have a PlayStation 3 connected via wireless and on occasion a couple of laptops.

    I have various drives (on both pc’s) shared out for access with password protection enabled.

    Is Win 7 FTP Server a valid solution? if so any help with setting it up would be appreciated.

    Cheers

    whacker.
     
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    Steve R Jones

    Steve R Jones SuperGeek Staff

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    Little out of my area...But ideally you'd want to have a static IP (extra $$ from your ISP) and then people in the outside world could FTP into the machine and grab files.

    You might be able to set a static internal IP to the machine in question and then have you router forward port 21 to the machine hosting the data.

    Might be easier to get an OnLine Storage like Mozy or one of the following:
    http://online-storage-service-review.toptenreviews.com/
     
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    TonyT

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    A FTP server will give access only to the files in the FTP server directories. Shares on other drives and computers will not be available via FTP. Also, many ISPs filter the standard FTP ports 20 & 21 to prevent home users from running FTP servers.

    Your best solution would be to use a NAS device (Network Attached Storage) such as a Buffalo Linkstation.

    NAS devices like this run their own operating systems and can be configured via your Web browser. Options for secure WAN access are usually available.

    To allow users from the WAN to access such a device or even servers like WWW or FTP, you will need to use the router port forwarding.
     
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    Whacker

    Whacker Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    Thank's guys...food for thought...not sure if I want to spend more money on a NAS device...well not just yet...my ISP is UPC here in Dublin Ireland and I have had the same static IP address for 8 months or more since I signed up with them! I have rang them to check about static IP's and it's what they call static-dynamic??? no commitment on there behalf with regard to keeping it static...unless you've guessed it, I part with some green-backs..but it would be good enough for me to get my head around the technologies and see how much it would be used.....

    Thanks for your input...

    Whacker
     
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    TonyT

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    FYI, it's pretty easy to take an old computer and turn it into a NAS system using Linux premade NAS distributions. Openflier is the one I would use.
     
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