Over the installation, even though you grant permission for FileZilla server to access your computer resources, there is something not quite correctly set up.īrowse to your firewall setting, you should be able to find FileZilla Server Interface might be in the allow list however, this is the problem. The common thing Windows users would probably miss while setting up FileZilla is the Firewall. Note: The shared folder directories is the root folder that the selected user (in this case, it's "anonymous") could see, but any folders contained by root folders are also visible to this user. On the left hand side, you will see the "Shared folders", you can specify the folder path you would like "anonymous" to look at as well as the permission you would like to grant. For different users, you can assign different path, or you can just create a group and assign the path to all members in that group.
If you would like to set up other accounts, make sure your "Password" filed is checked to enforce a secure login.
I created a user named "anonymous", and I make sure the "Password" field is uncheck because I would like to make this as my public FTP account that visitors could download from my FTP server. We will go to choose from "Edit->Users" (Or there is a shortcut icon right underneath the "Edit" on the menu bar.) Upon successful installation, FileZilla server will launch and you should be able to see the following interface:īefore we go ahead and set it up the ports, we would like to add a user to make sure it works. The first thing you will need to do is to install the package you just downloaded (from the above link) the installation is quite straight forward and I am not going to get into too detail. Or if you have a spare computer like I do, why don't you try to make use of it? I am going to show you how you can make your computer into a FTP server.Īfter trying a couple of the FTP server software, the freeware FileZilla Server became my choice. If have already set up your remote desktop at home, you will probably leave the computer on 24*7 just so that you can access it any time you want. Mind as well, you can set up an account so that you can view all of your files and grab them wherever you go. The best solution will be setting up your own FTP server at home and authorize your friend to download from your computer. What would you do? Usually emails have attachment limit ( usually it's not as high as 300MB) and it will be extremely slow and unstable if you try to transfer over instant messenger software like MSN. Let's say, if you have a file that's about 300MB and you would like to send it over to your friend oversea immediately. FTP, however, is still playing a very important role. FTP is actually getting less popular nowadays as users have lots of other protocols to exchange files, P2P especially BT. FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol, if you want to know more about it, you can check it out at Wikipedia.
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