My thanks to Alex and Jim for their comments and suggestions. Alex, I take your cautions seriously and will definitely look into the details of being a system administrator. If you can point me to some references, it would be appreciated. I don't plan to publicize this ftp site. I do plan to make it known to selected individuals who need access to some files I'll be creating. I had planned to place them in the public folder under users. It is my understanding that if I provide a user name and password, this folder will become available as it will be marked as a "read only" folder. Is this correct? Jim, thanks for the step by step instruction for the router and how to obtain the IP address assigned to the router. I hope to continue working on this during the weekend. Again, thank you both for your comments. Chuck > Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 12:49:15 -0400 > From: Alex <lists at lexial.ca> > Subject: Re: [G4] Setting an IP address on server > To: "A place to discuss Apple's G4 computers." > <g4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com> > Message-ID: <BAYC1-PASMTP013A58CD6A2BA6C33753CBD2150 at cez.ice> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > > On May 16, 2005, at 09:55, Charles Cox wrote: > >> I am trying to establish a selected hard drive on the dual 1 gig G4 as >> an FTP server. > > You cannot "establish" a drive as an FTP server. Only a computer can be > an FTP server. > >> I prefer not to get into OS X server apps. as I believe this can be >> done on the existing system. > > It can. System Preferences > Sharing > FTP access. > > If your server is going to be accessible from the WAN (internet) rather > than only from your LAN, then you put yourself at risk. You are > becoming a system administrator, and you better read and know what > you're doing. > > > <0x0192> > > Message: 9 > Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 18:04:27 -0700 > From: James Pacyga <jim.pacyga at earthlink.net> > Subject: Re: [G4] Setting an IP address on server > To: "A place to discuss Apple's G4 computers." > <g4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com> > Message-ID: <01428702c97fd10db1481ae0457ab4de at earthlink.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Yes. Chances are your linksys router is set to be a DHCP server > (meaning it assigns addresses to your machines). You can keep this set > up most likely as the linksys will not likely change any of those IPs > without some change in your network (e.g., new machines being added, > etc) and even then chances are you will still get the same address. > > To set up an FTP server, you will need to configure the linksys > router's "port forwarding". Essentially it means you will tell it that > port 21 needs to be sent to your G4's IP. (You can get your IP on the > G4 by opening the the System Preferences->Network panel). It will > likely be something like 192.168.x.y or similar. > > Once you set linksys to port forward port 21 to your G4 IP, then you > will need to check the Sharing Preferences panel and enable the FTP > check box on the services page (this will also open port 21 on your > firewall). To test if you have successfully forwarded your machine, > you can get your external IP address using any number of tools > (http://dslreports/whois) and then you can go your mac, open a terminal > window (or your PC using "cmd" for that matter) and type: > > ftp <the external ip address that WHOIS told you is yours> > > once you hit enter, you should get to a you should get some response > back asking for a login/password similar to this: > > Connected to localhost. > 220 localhost FTP server (tnftpd 20040810) ready. > Name (localhost:pacyga): > > I suggest you download PureFTPd Manager 1.4.4 from a site like > http://versiontracker.com. This tool helps configure some of the > hidden bits and will let you configure things like hidden FTP user > accounts and anonymous FTP (not that you would want to do that > necessarily). > > I have used it and it works fine. > > Jim > On May 16, 2005, at 6:55 AM, Charles Cox wrote: >>