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Easy 100 points!! FTP Basic Help

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by sir_tuc

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I am a virgin at setting up an FTP site. I would like some knowledgable person to recommend commercial FTP server software that is EASY (great documentation) and SECURE. Tried 4 shareware ones and could not connect. FTP server would be installed on NT 4.0 SP6a (without IIS) and SQL 7.0 installed and setup.

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by pvp

Why not use IIS?

You can stop the default web site and start the FTP service. You use the same management console for both.

Not to mention that the price is right.

by sir_tuc

I thank you for answering. We decided to go with a shareware FTP server because it was the ONLY one that suggested using FTP client software on clients, which seemed to have been the "great unknown" that was stopping us. I awarded the points because IIS may have helped if we would have known about FTP client software.

by jcondello

I agree with PvP, use Internet Information Server 4.0 from Mirosoft, it is free. It is available in the Option Pack, which I have on CD, see if you can order a CD from Microsoft, or borrow from somebody.

Once it is installed you can Stop the webservice, and just run the FTP server, it is fairly straight forward.

Good luck.

Joe

by sir_tuc

I thank you for answering. We decided to go with a shareware FTP server because it was the ONLY one that suggested using FTP client software on clients, which seemed to have been the "great unknown" that was stopping us. I awarded the points because IIS may have helped if we would have known about FTP client software.

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