[G4] Re: G4 Digest, Vol 9, Issue 17

[Charles Cox]

 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."
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> 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.
>
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> 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>
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> 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:
>>