Alternative to FTP
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@flaxking thanks for your help, it's appreciated.
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@Pete-S I had a very quick look over your ML post on this so nothing has sunk in, but how do external people access a share within a local network?
Do I have to set them up with a uname & pwd ???
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@siringo said in Alternative to FTP:
@Pete-S I had a very quick look over your ML post on this so nothing has sunk in, but how do external people access a share within a local network?
Do I have to set them up with a uname & pwd ???
You'd have to publish the server to the internet - and yes create each person a username and password.
you also need to make sure they can't get to other directories on the server besides their own. -
@siringo said in Alternative to FTP:
@Pete-S I had a very quick look over your ML post on this so nothing has sunk in, but how do external people access a share within a local network?
Do I have to set them up with a uname & pwd ???
It's using SSH under the hood, so whatever mechanism you'd use to make a remote SSH user.
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@Dashrender said in Alternative to FTP:
@siringo said in Alternative to FTP:
@Pete-S I had a very quick look over your ML post on this so nothing has sunk in, but how do external people access a share within a local network?
Do I have to set them up with a uname & pwd ???
You'd have to publish the server to the internet - and yes create each person a username and password.
you also need to make sure they can't get to other directories on the server besides their own.Yes in it's simplest form create a user account & password for each client that needs access. When the client creates the sshfs share they enter the servername, username and password. Then they can upload their files - and download too if you want to send files the other direction.
Your client, that has the server, can also use a sshfs share. You can create another user account (or several) for that. The user account just need to have read permission to the files that their clients have uploaded.
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@Pete-S thanks for pointing this out, it does look good, I'd like to test it out.
I'm suspecting that since it's a file copy operation from Windows, there'll be nothing like auto-reconnect, retry on reconnect etc etc?
