FTP Virgin. Be Gentile

[Dmshag]

So. New to the whole idea of FTP. Have watched a few videos. Read a few 'How-To' guides and I'm still mostly ignorant towards the subject. Here's what I'm after: I have a couple years old Windows 7 PC. I want to turn it into a file server. It's connected to my home network. I've downloaded FileZilla and followed the instructions that I've found in regards to setting up the server and forwarding ports in my router and firewall. Now what. How do i access the thing from my network connected laptop or gaming pc? For that matter, how do I access it from my work computer or my iPad or iPhone? Is there  a special program that I have to use to gain access or is there something special to do with FTP://blah.blah.blah.blah? Help me LinusTechTips. You're my only hope. 

[You_are_a_cunt]

There's a sexual innuendo in there somewhere

 

 

Assuming you've correctly set up the FileZilla server on your PC, to access the ftp server from another pc/laptop/computer/whatever you just use the filezilla client with the IP:PORT for your server (and user/pass). Unsure what your options are for iPad and iPhone

 

 

@Dmshag follow your posts

[Dmshag]

Is there a way to access the FTP server via IE or Chrome without needing the FileZilla Client? Or any client for that matter? A direct line so to speak. I ask because my work as a public records researcher regularly requires that I have access to the files stored on my office network. But my only access to the Internet while in the field is often only a public access PC. Right now im accessing them through a Seagate web portal that is inefficient at best. I don't imagine local county IT administrators would appreciate me installing unauthorized FTP clients onto their systems.

[linuxfan66]

Almost everyone here is a gentile. Unless their is a massive Jewish subculture I don't know about on this forum...

[ygohome]

Hello

 

You've setup FileZilla ftp to accept connections on a specific port#.  Default is port 21.

 

You've setup your router to direct the incoming FTP requests to the correct internal IP and Port of the FileZilla FTP server?

 

You've setup the firewall(s) to allow the incoming FTP connections?

 

As a start, in a browser window try an anonymous connection to the ftp server to see what you get

 

ftp://wan_ip_address:port

[Dmshag]

I see what I did there. Good one. *gentile = gentle. My apologies.

[Blebekblebek]

I've used HFS in the past, combned with hamachi.

it's easy to setup

http://rejetto.com/hfs/

 

I don't know if that still works

everything done within browser.