How to create an FTP server with a few clicks

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Create an FTP server in a simple way

It is sometimes solutions that seem complicated to implement when it is much simpler than expected. This is the case when you want to share documents (pictures, videos or otherwise) with relatives by giving them access to his computer. However, the implementation of an FTP server (for File Transfer Protocol) unpretentious may prove to be a quick and easy option. Demonstration.

Step 1: Download and Installation

1. Download FileZilla Server.

2. Run the installation program.

3. Leave the options as you suggested by the software by default, unless you want to have your active server when Windows starts. In this case, uncheck the box "Filezilla Server (Service).

4. Allow the application to receive and send information from your network, your firewall ask you or not. If you must configure it manually, you can decide the port from which you can access the administration interface Filezilla (here port 14147) and the protocol used is TCP (entering).

5. Do not forget to enter a password for your terminal server, otherwise without reducing the safety of the latter.

Step 2: Define users

You should now have Filezilla an icon in the notification area. Double-click to bring up the interface for managing your server. The first thing is to configure user access to this one.

1. Go to the "Edit" menu and select "Users".

2. Click the "Add" to add an authorized user to connect to your server. Note that you must then respect the case ID and password, ie it will have to take a differentiated uppercase and lowercase.

3. Feel free to choose passwords complex enough so that it can not be found easily by apprentices pirates.

In addition to creating simple user, you can also form groups that will apply to multiple users the same speed transfer of law on sharing files, etc..

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Step 3: Definition of shares

Now that your users are created, they must be given a directory from which they can perform actions that you define.

1. Click on "Shared folders" in the window user management. You will then define the user selected, the or directories to which it has access.

2. Click the "Add" to do this, and select the folders you want to share with that user.

3. Check the boxes that correspond to the permissions that you want to give different users. We advise you to leave the default settings by adding "Write" and "Create" if you want your family can drop items on your hard disk.

You must of course reproduce these manipulations for each of your users, hence the interest of creating a group. If you want to give access to several directories, know that they must be subdirectories of a parent folder to be defined as the directory "Home" of the user (that is what is the button "Set as home directory).

Also note that if you wish, you can apply rules to speed loading (upload) and download (download) for each user or group, and associate a user to a fixed IP address, if you own one, this which secures a little more your server, but prevents the user in question to connect from a computer other than its own.

Step 4: Apply general rules

Rather than defining the rules for each user or even different groups, you can also act in a comprehensive manner on your server through the interface Filezilla Server.

1. Rendezvous in the first tab "General Settings". You can specify the port here listening to your server (default port 21), the maximum number of users and the timeout, ie the time after which the inactivity of a client triggers its automatic disconnection.

2. Have fun to personalize your greeting, even if only those who use a command line client could see it.

3. Go to the tab "Miscellaneous" if you want to receive the option to launch the management interface directly in the notification area.

4. Activate writing a diary of events (logging) if you want to trace the activity of your server.

5. Specify whether you want to impose limits loading and downloading about your server through the tab "Speed Limits." You can set these rules or simply more advanced, by defining time slots, for example.

6. Eradicate small jokers who seek to enter in your server, automatically banning and 999 hours for such an IP address from which someone would have made successive 3 Enter a password wrong.