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Posted by Technaut on May-14-2002 21:52:

Help on FTP please

Soz if your not supposed to post shit like this in here?

I have downloaded FTP Surfer and I want to let someone Log into my FTP to download MP3's from me.

I think that my IP is NOT 'static' I think it changes everytime I log on to the internet - do I need to change this to a 'static' IP address and basically tell whoever it is that will be logging into my FTP the IP address, give them a password etc and then we are good to go ???

Any links to sites that I can learn this on would be helpful as well

Cheers
Technaut

Posted by Fir3start3r on May-14-2002 21:55:

http://www.dynip.com/

Your best solution...
I've used it in the past and it works great.

Posted by BigDil on May-14-2002 21:57:

As for making your IP 'static', just use http://dns2go.deerfield.com/, you'll have a domain that always redirects your visitors to your IP. It's really useful. Click the link to learn more.

Posted by BigDil on May-14-2002 21:59:

quote:
Originally posted by Fir3start3r
http://www.dynip.com/

Your best solution...
I've used it in the past and it works great.

Technaut, now you can even choose, I think both are good, so it's up to you...

Posted by Technaut on May-14-2002 22:54:

thanks for the help guys , for the moment I've went for dns2go. But I will probly try dynip next week to see which one I like best

What FTP client does everyone use? I have heard people mention Serv-U, is this good one to go for?

Posted by BigDil on May-15-2002 12:52:

quote:
Originally posted by Technaut
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What FTP client does everyone use? I have heard people mention Serv-U, is this good one to go for?

Personally I use WarFTP, you can get it at http://www.warftp.org. I havent tried Serv-U though, it can't be that bad either. Give them a try, and you'll see

Posted by BigDil on May-15-2002 12:58:

Anyways.. The client is the one with which you connect to an ftp server.
I think you were searching for an ftp server program, such as warftp, and serv-u... the one that makes your computer an ftp server, so that others can connect to you, via their ftp client....

Hope it was understandable

Posted by Technaut on May-15-2002 18:29:

Yeah I can understand your being very helpful

So there are 2 types of FTP a client and a server program.

The client is just to connect to other people FTP servers

The server one is for when people connect to me - which you were correct in saying thats what I want to do

So I'm now going to try the link you gave me for the server one and use it. I take it the server can be used to connect to others as well?

Thanks for your help

Technaut