vista ftp acsess

[gooberguy]

simply enough, is there anything built into vista that will let me access every file on my computer from another computer away from home?


not like remote desktop, but just a simple file viewer type thing. :P

[gooberguy]

no one? not even a small freeware file?

[ChrissyBoy]

Ultimate and Business have an FTP server via IIS

[JohnnyMalaria]

Note that if your PC is behind a router/firewall etc, you'll have to configure the router/modem to forward FTP protocol packets to that specific PC since it will have a local IP address not visible to the outside world.

Also, if you want to use something like FTP, you'll really want something like SmartFTP since the Windows command line function (ftp) is tedious to use to say the least. Or, use web-based FTP access - I've done that before but can't remember the web site. Basically, it lets you connect to an FTP server via HTTP - useful when you are behind a firewall that blocks FTP.

[gooberguy]

well i got filezilla (server) and i set it up, made a user name.

i can connect to the server locally, but from my laptop i just get time-outs.

i've disabled windows firewall, and i've set up my router to foward port 21. still nothing, any ideas? (running windows vista)

[JohnnyMalaria]

Do you have another PC you could try as a server but running XP?

I ran into no end of problems writing a simple client/server for use with some of our software. Everything worked like a charm with XP but it just wouldn't work right with Vista (it worked in one direction!) I ended up having to rewrite everything and use a different approach.

Pre-Vista, Windows uses the traditional IPv4 for IP addresses (i.e., 192.168.1.5 etc). Vista uses the newer IPv6 (6 sets of numbers for the address) and it uses it natively. IPv4 is effectively shoe-horned into Vista.

Does your server software claim to support Vista as a host?

Also, you can troubleshoot it by using Vista's own FTP server instead.

[jman98]

Ultimate and Business have an FTP server via IIS

And you hate gooberguy enough to suggest this because ...?

God help you if you run IIS. And ftp servers on Windoze are no fun, unless you enjoy having them flake out for no reason and not behave like normal ftp servers.

Other options that make more sense and might work without the horrible security problems of IIS would include:

Loading the Cygwin toolkit (http://www.cgywin.com), but this assumes some Unix familiarity. You could run an ftp server under Windoze this way.

Load a VNC server (http://www.vnc.com) on your PC and connect to it. It's another way basically to do remote desktop, but it works through a web browser.

[gooberguy]

...Also, you can troubleshoot it by using Vista's own FTP server instead.

how? :P

[JohnnyMalaria]

To see if it's a problem with filezilla, disable/uninstall it and then enable Vista's FTP server. If you still can't access it, you know it isn't a filezilla thing.


Hmmm....I was trying to determine the steps needed and got this far:

To enable the server:

Go to Control Panel\Programs and Features
Click Turn Windows features on and off
Look in the list for Internet Information Services and expand it
Expand FTP Publishing Service and check FTP Server
Click OK and wait...and wait...and wait (about 5 minutes so far)
Download and install the IIS 6.0 Manager MMC Snap In (this lets you configure FTP):

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=f9c1fb79-c903-4842-9f6c-9db93...displaylang=en

Install it and....no can do, "need XP SP1 or higher". Fails even in "compatibilty mode".

The native Vista IIS configuration doesn't let you configure FTP.

Sheesh....

Sorry! Perhaps someone has successfully set up FTP on Vista....

[stiltman]

I'm sure you tried this, but what the heck
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=vista+ftp+server+freeware

http://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+setup+vista+ftp+server&hl=en&safe=off&start=10&sa=N