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Does anyone know a great tutorial for accessing my PC via FTP?

Does anyone know a great tutorial for accessing my PC via FTP?
I want to be able to leave my computer on (connected to the Internet) so that I can access my disk or a partition remotely via FTP; If you are able to sum it up in points or a tutorial great! :)

1) Your PC needs to be running an FTP server
2) You need to know the IP address of your PC
3) You access it remotely using an FTP client by connecting to its IP

Those are the basics.
1) involves installing the server and setting it up so that your machine is not wide open to abuse after a port scan finds port 21 open. Password, number of simultaneous logons, Range of directories available, read/write access, upload/download.
2)Unless you have a static IP to need to map your actual IP via a host that allows home Web/FTP sites to be given a name
3) If you have to do 2) then you would access the site via name regardless of a changing IP

There are plenty of freeware FTP servers and clients available.

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One Response to “Does anyone know a great tutorial for accessing my PC via FTP?”

  1. GrahamH Says:
    November 25th, 2009 at 9:01 am

    1) Your PC needs to be running an FTP server
    2) You need to know the IP address of your PC
    3) You access it remotely using an FTP client by connecting to its IP

    Those are the basics.
    1) involves installing the server and setting it up so that your machine is not wide open to abuse after a port scan finds port 21 open. Password, number of simultaneous logons, Range of directories available, read/write access, upload/download.
    2)Unless you have a static IP to need to map your actual IP via a host that allows home Web/FTP sites to be given a name
    3) If you have to do 2) then you would access the site via name regardless of a changing IP

    There are plenty of freeware FTP servers and clients available.
    References :

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