FTP question

[Ray Auge]

On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 17:07 -0700, Francis X. Maier wrote:

> The fog still lays heavily on my head re the whole website-on-my-Linux
> box thing, folks.  Last week, thanks to this list, I managed to get
> Apache up and running.  But now I'd like to access my website via FTP
> from the office to update the site.
> 
> So I checked the YDL HOWTOs and found something on proftpd, which I then
> discovered seems to be an alternative to vsftpd, already on my machine.
> So I went in and turned on vsftpd; but I still can't upload -- wrong
> login, etc..  Is there some other step I need to take?  Thanks in
> advance!

I would say "dont' bother with FTP". As Dr. MacDonald suggests, use SSH,
it's probably allready installed on your system. If not, a simple, yum
install ssh will do the trick.

Now from work using Windows (yack) follow solution 1), else follow
solution 2).


1) You can install Filezilla (THE best ftp client ever made, it's
opensource and a free download). It can connect via ssh to your machine
at home, just with the IP and your usual account login.

If you have a very locked down network where you can't install anything
that hasn't been approved by Bill himself, then get PSFTP from

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html

It's a simple exe that doesn't need to go through an install sequence,
or register anything in the registry. ie it'll run off your desktop.

2) Use either Kbear or gftp (or virtually any FTP client you want, as
most of the Linux based FTP clients now support SSH/SCP, heck you can
connect directly from konqueror, just type in the address bar:

ssh://username@server

to get a connection right in your filemanager. 

TIP: in konqueror, select Window->Split View Top/Bottom, click in one of
the windows, type the above ssh command in the address bar, VOILA, you
can drag and drop files from one window to the other...

REMOTE/ENCRYPTED DRAG AND DROP right in your file manager, cool eh!


PS: Dr. MacDonald if you're reading this, you can set the double-click
behaviour in KDE by first going to the KDE Control Center (or type
kcontrol from the command line) select Peripherals->Mouse, in the Icons
pane select "Double-click to open files and folders". You can even set
the delay.

Hope that helps.
-- 
Ray Auge <rayauge@doublebite.com>