File Transfer Protocol is a standard network protocol used to transfer data across one host to another via a TCP-based network
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replacing FTP with SFTP
The site I manage has already suffered one major and one minor breach so I'm looking closely at methods of improving security. We've been using FTP...
Everybody seems to agree that FTP must be ...
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vsftpd fast for binary files, slow for text files
I am running vsftpd 2.2.1 on an Ubuntu 8.04 machine with a pretty straight-forward configuration and am experiencing a strange issue regarding uploads to the machine via FTP. If I upload text files ...
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IIS7 Windows Server 2008 FTP -> Response: 530 User cannot log in
I just launched my first IIS FTP site following many of the tutorials from IIS.NET... I'm using IIS Users and Permissions rather than anonymous and/or basic.
This is what I'm seeing while trying to ...
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looking for a clean way of how to bring down a ftp server for maintenance
i'm currently thinking of a clean way of how to bring an ftp server down for maintenance. i wonder, if anybody out there could give me some hints of how to solve this:
i don't want to interrupt any ...
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Deleting files from Remote FTP-Server older than x days
i've got a remote FTP server where i store some backups via cronjob.
The Problem is that i only got a little amount of space so im doing incremental backups. I want to keep the backups about 14 days.
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User Permissions for a Public FTP
I'm a newbie with FTP/User permissions. We are a magazine, and we have an ad server where all the advertisers place their ads each month. As of now, the primary user, advertiser, has all ...
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Install FTP on IIS7?
How does one install FTP publishing in IIS 7?
Adding the Role service doesn't work.
With a previous Win 2008 server I had to download FTP 7.5 as a seperate install for IIS 7. I did that this time ...
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Permissions for Multiple User VPS
I have a Linode VPS server that I have recently setup and am migrating to from Mediatemple, where I have a VPS managed by Plesk. I dislike the Plesk interface and the mess it makes of a lot of things, ...
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Ever heard of Yafc (or another ftp client) to mistype filenames? [closed]
I know this sounds weird, but that's what it looks like.
I've got a debian squeezy x64 server (let's call Server X) it with yafc 1.1.1.dfsg.1-4.
I am currently trying to move an online shop from ...
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squid and ftp connections
i have a squid proxy server for both, http and ftp connections, i'm trying to use filezilla to open a ftp, but it always fail with an error saying:
Status: Connection with proxy established, ...
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Apache FTPServer Starting issue
I have Apache 2.2 Server up and running my Website on my Windows 2003 Server. I now want to give visitors the ability to upload/download data to my site. So, I installed Apache FTPServer 1.6 but the ...
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connection times out after 1GB download
I have a very weird problem with few of my servers. It seems that users on these servers, whenever they download from them, either via FTP (proftpd) or HTTP (apache2), big files (over 1GB), the ...
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Plesk FTP not working but SFTP and Shell is working
I am facing a strange problem. The FTP on my Plesk VPS is not working. Whenever I try to connect, FileZilla FTP client says:
Status: Resolving address of xxxxxxxxxxxxx.com
Status: Connecting to ...
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What is the secure way to isolate ftp server users on unix?
I've read documentation for various ftp daemons and various long threads about the security implications of using a chroot environment for an ftp server when giving users write access. If you read the ...
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Other users on my Server?
I'm buying a Server from a person (that I don't know really well) and I want to make sure that the previous owner hasn't got any access anymore.
It's an Ubuntu Virtual Server and I already received ...
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Why does anyone use ftp?
I am a newbie, so maybe I'm missing something. Why would anyone use ftp or telnet for site administration? If they use them, why would they wonder how they've been hacked? Isn't it obvious that all ...
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FTP Client that intergrates fully into the Windows Explorer
I am looking for an FTP client that intergrates with the Windows explorer so that users will be able to just use it like a normal mapped drive.
My users need remote access to company files and VPN is ...
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Best ftp server for ubuntu server 10.04? [closed]
Could you please recommend best ftp server for ubuntu server 10.04
Regards,
Alexey Zakharov.
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How to disable passive mode in linux ftp command
I am using the "ftp" command of linux to send data to a 3rd party provider.
This company states that we need to "Disable passive mode in your FTP client", and I confirm it doesn't work in passive ...
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Best online backup provider with simple and secure FTP server [closed]
I'm looking to do online backups of some data from a Linux server. The amount of data is pretty small right now and it's unlikely to ever exceed 10 GB or so. I've already got a cron job set up that ...
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FTP in Windows Server 2008
I am trying to set up FTP on my Windows Server 2008 machine and have a question. In Role Services, instead of "FTP Server" I have "FTP Publishing Service". What is the difference between the two and ...
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ftp in a non-networked environment is insecure?
ftp is regarded as an insecure protocol because it sends the password in clear text rather than in encrypted form like other protocols provide.
My question is: if I connect to my web host from my ...
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Bash script: Monitor hotfolder and partial files
I have a customer that upload files through FTP, I made a script that basically monitor the ftp folder and move the file on a production machine.
How can I check if the file has been completely ...
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I can ssh and sftp to my server, but ncftp doesn't work
In addition to what's stated in the title, I'm also able to ncftp successfully into a different server. But on server A, I get this
Could not connect to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -- try again later: ...
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FTP Server with advanced features
We supply zone-files to our customers. Some zone files are big about 300MB and some are quite small, maybe like 1MB. We had this issue that someone setup a script to continually download the file. ...
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FTP, SCP or something else
I've just got my own virtual server running Windows Server 2008 and I'm setting it up. However, I'm far from an expert and I'm not sure about a few things.
I want to be able to move files to and from ...
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Copy from server to server
I have a site I want to backup online, and I have FTP access. Is there a faster way instead of downloading it to my PC and the reuploading it to the backup server?
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lftp: how to copy file on remote server
How to copy file on remote server using lftp?
Moving files is as easy as using mv command, but is there any command equivalent to cp?
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How to FTP multiple folders to another server using mput in Unix?
I am logged in on a server (using Putty). from there I'm connecting using FTP to another server. I want to copy several folders from the first server to the second server using mput.
Like:
ftp> mput ...
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Automate the FTP process
What is the best way to automate the ftp process. I mean can a script be written which when executed would ftp to a remote system and fetch files with out human intervention.
Please suggest.
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Will using the Vista (basic) FTP Server in IIS be secure enough?
I'm not a sysadmin, in fact I have zero skills in this area.
However, I need to setup an FTP Server for the purpose of receiving uploads daily. The T1 will be connected to a router, and this will be ...
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vsftpd - local_root=/var/www/sites/$USER doesn't get interpreted?
When I'm trying to connect to FTP server I get:
"500 OOPS: cannot change directory:/home/$USER/public_html"
when I do echo $USER - I get proper username
seems like $USER isn't interpreted inside my ...
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FTP an entire folder via the command line
I'm looking so migrate some websites to a new server.
I have SSH access to the current one but only FTP access to the new one.
How can I via Centos and SSH copy entire folders to the new server via ...
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Looking for FTP server recommendations for BSD [closed]
I'm currently deciding on what ftp server we should use for an internal system that we have running FreeBSD 6.2. The requirements that we'll need are the following:
must be able to handle SSL, as ...
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Windows 2000 Server IIS FTP user log
Is there an easy way to look at some type of log or anything that will show what users have been on the box within a certain time frame. We are retiring the box and need to see if turning it off will ...
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How to give root user and group permission while ftp uploading for a normal user
I have to upload some videos files for streaming purpose. While uploading the videos as a ftp user, it will have the ftp user and group permission. But now in my case, the files uploaded by the ftp ...
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FTP on Linux “Failed to retrieve directory listing” not firewall issue
I've got an VPS in germany running Debian X64. I have very strange issue.
I have ISPConfig CP installed using proftpd and I can not connect to FTP by any means.
Few hours ago I've had installed ...
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Can't connect to ftp port 21
I installed ftp server on Windows 2003, enabled 21 port in Firewall and I can connect "telnet localhost 21" but can't connect "telnet 77.168.0.1 21"
What it can be?
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Fast, reliable data transfers from/to China
We are a small company and we will need to transfer rather large amounts of data (10GB+ each time) between Europe and China in the near future.
As many may have experienced, Internet connections to ...
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FTP - Is transferring ascii files in binary a bad thing?
We have a local development server that we develop websites on. To push a website live it is FTPed (SSH/SFTP/Rsync is not an option unfortunately) to our webhost.
I want to run some scripts that ...
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IIS 7.5 FTP IIS Manager Users Login Fail (530)
IIS 7.5 FTP IIS Manager Users Login Fail (530)
I'm trying to set up a FTP site on IIS 7.5 that allows IIS Manager Users to login. I'm following this guide: ...
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FTP/Windows/COmmand Line
How do I connect to my ftpserver from command line in just one command line.
For Example : ftp://hello.mydomain.com is my ftp server URL. I usually open a command prompt
Start -> Run -> cmd
and ...
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Whats a good secure Windows FTP server? [closed]
Whats a good FTP server? I have been running FileZilla, which seems okish. But I've noticed that a lot of people try to hack ftp servers and FileZilla only has very basic controls to prevent people ...
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Secure File Transfer Site
I need to setup a site to share files with clients. Everything about it has to be secure so, I don't want to use straight FTP. The other requirement is that it has to be easy to use as the people that ...
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Quotas in vsftpd?
I tried to configure user disk quotas for vsftpd.
I configured quotas for ftp virtual users using the "quota" package on debian (you know, by editing /etc/fstab and all that stuff). Internet told me ...
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Can a FTP server use control port other than 21 (default control port)?
Can a ftp server listen on any other port than 21 (default control port to which any FTP client initiates the connection to)? If yes, how does the client know on which port it has to initiate the ...
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FTP server accessible internally, but directory listing fails externally
I just set up an FTP server using the latest version of FileZilla server. I set up a user and gave them a home directory. If I connect to the server via 127.0.0.1:21 or 192.168.1.42:21 (my local IP), ...
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Can I configure VSFTPD to listen only to localhost?
I have a legacy app that needs FTP and cannot do SFTP.
My solution is:
put an FTP server in place using VSFTPD
configure the firewall to accept port 21 connections only from localhost
Set up an SSH ...
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How to dump a mysql database and transfer to remote ftp in one line -for crontab-?
I need to do a weekly backup of a mySQL table and then transfer it to a remote machine using ftp.
This is the command I have now in crontab:
0 18 * * 1 /usr/bin/mysqldump --add-drop-table ...
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How to deal with files on an Amazon's EC2 web server?
Usually I would think ftps, but for one I'm having several troubles configuring it, and for two I'm wondering if there's a better way to transfer files in and out.
It's a basic web server that we ...
