anyone know of a free FTP server for windoze??

[krusty the klown]

Hope someone can help me out here - we want to set up PC as a remote CD burner over a LAN.

We could put Linux on the machine, but there's a debate whether Windows or Linux would be the best option. There are pros and cons to both, but the main problem is that Silicon Graphics machines need to be able to send files to the system with as little human intervention at the system as possible, because it's likely that the machine will be being used.

Obviously, peer-to-peer drive mapping will not be a problem between Windows machines, but the SGI machines will not be able to 'push' files to the burner server without an FTP server installed.

The only other way would be to pull the files off the SGI from the burner server, interrupting the user of that machine and generally being a pain in the azz!

Does anyone know of either a workaround or a free FTP server that will allow files to be pushed from a UNIX machine to a Windoze PC??

TIA http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

[BBA]

How about using MS IIS ( called peer web services for Win9x ) Im pretty sure the Win9x version has an FTP server built in and it is free ( I downloaded it once...it is like 70 or 80 Meg to d/l, but it's free )

Anyway, I installed IIS on my W2K server, set up the FTP server portion and can push files to it from anywhere with anything that aproximates an ftp client...like anything with IE.

[This message has been edited by BBA (edited 10-04-2000).]

[krusty the klown]

Cheers, I'll give it a try http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

Then we'll have to convince the IT dept that we're not operating the machine as a web FTP server http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/wink.gif

[Savant]

If you have windows98 it comes on the cd Simply run L:\add-ons\pws\setup.exe

L: is my CD

[krusty the klown]

Well, bugg3r me! How about that? I do have the 98 CD <IMG SRC="http://smilecwm.tripod.com/net7/biggthumpup.gif" border=0>