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1. My mac ftp server how to#
2. My mac ftp server manual#
3. My mac ftp server password#
4. My mac ftp server Pc#
5. My mac ftp server series#

My mac ftp server manual#

At this location you will also find an excellent and very readable user’s manual for NetPresenz, which I would encourage you to at least browse before starting the application for the first time.Ī note of key importance highlighted by this manual is to make sure that File Sharing is on before you run NetPresenz. You can acquire a copy of NetPresenz 4.1 from. With NetPresenz and Fetch installed, you can both make your files available to others via FTP, and you can access files that others are making available to you, also via FTP.įirst things first, as always. NetPresenz is a wonderful freeware package that delivers an FTP Server, a Web Server AND a Gopher server (if you haven’t heard of Gopher before, you can think of it as an early predecessor to HTTP).

My mac ftp server Pc#

Sharing Files from a Macintosh to a PC via NetPresenz FTP Server However, what if you want to share files FROM your Mac via FTP? For that, you need a Macintosh FTP server, a job beyond the limited means of FTP client applications like Fetch and Transmit. Both are excellent and well known FTP clients, each providing a means for getting files TO your vintage Mac via FTP, from an FTP site. “NetPresenz?” you are thinking to yourself… What the heck is NetPresenz? Names like Fetch and Transmit pop unbidden into your mind when you think of vintage Macs and FTP, and this is not without reason. Today’s post attacks the networking problem from a totally different direction – the FTP protocol – using a much lesser known application, NetPresenz. Both of these use the SMB protocol to achieve networking.

My mac ftp server series#

The first two posts in this series covered accomplishing this with two fairly well known tools for this purpose, Thursby Software’s Dave, and Connectix’s DoubleTalk.

My mac ftp server how to#

Again, you can Google on how to use the FTP commands from the command prompt if you want to transfer files, etc.This is the third in our series concerning how to network your vintage Macintosh with its Windows peers of the day.

My mac ftp server password#

I typed in my username and password and was connected! I then used the ls command to list out the contents of the directory that I gave myself access to. However, once I opened the firewall ports, I was able to connect easily using the command prompt from another local computer on my network as you can see below: I suggest Googling a bit to understand what options to use here as they will vary depending on your setup. If you’re setting this up at home, you’ll need to enable Passive mode settings also. It’s quite pointless to setup an FTP server if only people on your network can connect to it. You’ll also need to learn a little bit about port forwarding, so that users can connect from outside just your local LAN network. If you installed FileZilla to the default location, you need to allow C:\Program Files(x86)\FileZilla Server\FileZilla Server.exe to the exceptions list. Read my post on how to allow an app through the firewall in Windows. You won’t be able to connect to it until you add an exception to your firewall to allow connections for FileZilla. Turn on IP filtering to prevent IP addresses from connecting to your server. This is ideal if you want to control the amount of usable bandwidth: You may set the download speed limits if you feel your Internet connection will be affected by your clients. Set the permission for the users, make sure to uncheck write and delete if you don’t want other users to modify your files and directories. Now to share a directory click “ Shared folders” then browse for the folders that you want to share: To assign a password, check the Password box and then type in a password for the user. On the General page, go ahead and click on the Add button at the far right. The first thing that you will need to do is create an FTP user account. It’ll give you some basic info about the server and also auto-detect if you are behind a NAT router. Once connected to the server, you’ll get a screen like below. At the end, it’ll automatically fill in the details to connect to the server, which should be localhost and the port number for the admin interface.