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Re: [PLUG] large file transfer
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Matthew Rosewarne wrote:
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.
Those are some nice suggestions. I'd like to be able to do both FTP and
SFTP. I can add a Linux server if I need to. Or would a service
providing a server be better considering that we're working with a
regular Comcast cable connection?
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