Re: [PLUG] large file transfer

[Matthew Rosewarne <mukidohime@case.edu>]

On Thursday 25 January 2007 11:57, gyoza@comcast.net wrote:
> Is there something better than FTP for "civilians" to transfer up to
> gigabytes of files?  This would be used for business to business
> transfers of image files.
 
Provided there's a linux machine somewhere in this equation, by far the best 
approach is SSH+SFTP.  There is a windows GUI for it called WinSCP, which is 
complete, stable, and integrates with explorer.  All you need to do is give 
the remote user a login+password and point them to your machine, just like 
FTP.  The primary advantage of this approach over any of the other mentions 
is security, as the traffic is both authenticated and encrypted, which is 
essential for sharing over the internet.  Ask in IRC if you need any help 
setting it up.  It should be very straightforward. I've put it in place for 
several "mortals" (or lusers, whatever you prefer) and they haven't had any 
problems with it.

The only other decent approach I can think of is WebDAV, which has the 
advantage of not needing additional software on the client, but the 
disadvantage that it's fairly complicated to setup, especially compared to 
SSH.

If you only need for people to download things anonymously from your machine 
and not upload, you might try webfsd (it's in Debian) which is a tiny 
webserver that only serves up a directory over HTTP.  The only configuration 
you need to do is tell it what directory you want it to share.  Again, ask on 
IRC if you need more details.

Hope this helps.

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