Dear all,
I need a freeware, public domain, or whatever FTP server that will run under Windows NT Workstation. This seems to be surprisingly difficult to find.
The NT Option Pack from Microsoft has an FTP server, but it seems to only allow anonymous accounts, not secure accounts. Nice, but I need an FTP server that will allow secure accounts, as I only want certain people to be able to read/write to the directories.
Anyone have a suggestion?
Server watch at http://serverwatch.internet.com/servers.html has a huge roundup of server reviews of all sorts, some freeware. I’m running Xitami on my home machine, which is a freeware HTTP/FTP server, seems to operate reasonably well, and has user authorization as well as other security features. I think you may find that a lot of your choices for FTP servers will come as part of a freeware web server. No reason you have to actually use the web server part - look at both sections.
Xitami is a good basic server by the way - small footprint, stable, easy to set up. When I worked for one of the app server vendors, we packaged Xitami as our “toy” web server to use in case you didn’t have a web server on your development machine.
My fave is War FTP.
Here are some freeware NT ftp server hits from
http://www.tucows.com
Cerberus FTP Server 1.5
This Cerberus is not three-headed beast, but a guardian for your FTP server. Windows NT FTP Servers Freeware 3.1MB
WAR FTP Daemon 1.71 Beta Release 2-Experimental
This is a powerful and highly configurable FTP daemon that provides many configuration and security options.
Windows NT FTP Servers Freeware 3.5MB
Here’s an in depth review of war
http://serverwatch.internet.com/reviews/ftp-warftp.html
Here’s a little bit of it
"What really sets War FTP Daemon apart from the competition is its extensive security capabilities. Numerous configuration options are available for each user, group of users, class of users (guest, sysadmin, user, or visitor), or all users (default security preferences). In addition to non-security related features like personalized greetings, security options that can be set include upload/download restrictions and ratio options for both anonymous and regular users, extensive logging capabilities (tracks number of times connected, files uploaded, files downloaded, etc.), file access permissions (read, write, execute, and delete options that can be set for specific files and directories), access restrictions (by password or e-mail address), file ban capabilities, limits on the maximum number of concurrent connections, and access list masks. "
Based on what I read on the serverwatch site, and the other recommendations here, I downloaded the War FTP server, and it works very well - Fierra just spent the last 2 hours testing it with me.
Thank you guys very much for helping me. Now, I just need to set up my mail server… 