On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 09:21 -0500, Rolf wrote:
> Hi Russell,
> 
> The biggest issue with FTP is not the server, but the firewall. You need 
> stateful packet firewall systems in order to protect the rest of your 
> system, while opening the *two* ftp ports.
> 
> Although my FTP experience is Linux based, the firewalling issues are a 
> problem regardless of the FTP implementation.

Agreed. Personally I don't use ftp anymore.

Russel: Use ssh. It only requires one port to be open, and all traffic
is encrypted. No fancy firewall rules, just forward port 22 (or even
better change to another port) to the machine.

I enabled ssh on my linux box and now I can use sftp which has all the
functionality of ftp, but over the ssh link, so it's secure.

I don't know of an ssh server for windows, but I'm sure google will help
there. TTYL
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