Russell McMahon wrote:
> Summary:    Want to implement FTP server with minimum 
> bloodshed and effort.

aptitude install vsftpd

[Watch while aptitude pulls in all the necessary dependencies and the 
vsftpd package...]

Edit /etc/vsftpd.conf to turn it on.  Done.

> I run an Apache web server on a Windows XP home PC.
> Until now I've not provided remote FTP access.  I'd now like 
> to do so. I know that there are any number of suitable 
> software packages "out there" including many good free ones, 
> and all the information needed to implement them. I also 
> know that what is often trivially easy after you've done it 
> a few times can be arcanely hard and ultra time consuming 
> first time round. I also know that the fantastic straight 
> forward instructions that one finds on a website somewhere 
> turn out to be less useful than one hopes at the time. (Even 
> if all they are doing is eg telling you how to turn FTP on 
> on an existing Windows XP Pro box).

Oops.  You're on Windows, not Debian.  Nevermind.  :-)

Heh... sorry Russell, I had to point it out...

You'd have been done in 5 minutes if you weren't running XP for your 
server OS.  Switch to an OS designed to be used on servers, man!

Dump the GUI.  Hack.

:-) ;-)

Nate
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