You may set the download speed limits if you feel your Internet connection will be affected by your clients. Set the permission for the users, make sure to uncheck write and delete if you don’t want other users to modify your files and directories. Now to share a directory click “Shared folders” then browse for the folders that you want to share: To assign a password, check the Password box and then type in a password for the user. On the General page, go ahead and click on the Add button at the far right. The first thing that you will need to do is create an FTP user account. It’ll give you some basic info about the server and also auto-detect if you are behind a NAT router. Once connected to the server, you’ll get a screen like below. This port is only used to administer the server, not for FTP clients.Īt the end, it’ll automatically fill in the details to connect to the server, which should be localhost and the port number for the admin interface. On the Startup settings screen, you can stick with the defaults or change the admin port if you like. Some of the screens are complicated, but you don’t have to worry because you can just go with the defaults and everything works fine.
The server software is actually very easy to install. Download the server program from this URL. Previously, I wrote how to setup your own FTP server using IIS and in this tutorial we will show you how to setup your own FTP server using the free software called FileZilla.
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