[WinMac] Re: FTP Uploading

Brian Forte(bforte[at]adelaide.on.net)
Fri, 02 Oct 1998 12:46:29 +0930

David,

>A coworker of mine recently got his area hooked up to ethernet. It is
>important for him and me to transfer files about 50mb in size to each
>other so I figured it would be easiest and cheapest if I setup a ftp
>server on my computer (IBM-compatable, his has a Mac). When he logged on
>he was able to download files from me however he was unable to upload them
>to my computer. I figured this was possibly a problem because he is in a
>higher security location and there was a firewall and other items up (that
>is the extent to my network knowledge!).

I hate to ask the obvious, but have you set your FTP server to allow a
known user to write to a directory on your HD? If he's trying to login
using the standard 'anonymous/email address as password' your FTP
server's default settings (which should allow for read-only access for
anonymous FTP users) would prevent him from writing any file to your
machine.

>He is fairly new to computers and thus I doubt he could setup a ftp server
>on his computer. Does anybody know a way that he can get around whatever
>is blocking him to upload the files to my computer?

Even given his 'fairly new' status, it might be worth pointing him
towards Peter Lewis's NetPresenz, a US$10.00 shareware FTP, HTTP and
Gopher server for the Mac OS.

It's small, elegant and very easy to set-up. If your co-worker has ever
used the Mac OS's built-in personal file-sharing to allow someone to
share a folder on his machine then he can setup NetPresenz, since it uses
the same interface (and tools).

You'll find all of Peter's tools at <http://www.stairways.com/> and
NetPresenz in particular at <http://www.stairways.com/netpresenz/>.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Brian Forte.

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