is there a utility

[vshah]

like the title says...


doh wrong forum 🙁

 

[olds]

Yes. It's called Windows.

 

[vshah]

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
Yes. It's called Windows.

google tells me nothing. i can map it to network places, but i want to assign it a drive letter....

map network drive can't do that afaict...

 

[Goosemaster]

EDIT:


Whoops. That requires a license😱


The legal way:

1. Perform a NSLOOKUP for the FTP site, e.g.
nslookup ftp.microsoft.com
make a note of the IP address
2. Edit the LMHOSTS file (in %systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc)
3. Add line
<ip address> MicrosoftFTP #PRE
e.g. 207.46.133.140 MicrosoftFTP #PRE
4. Save the file
5. Open a CMD.EXE session. Enter command:
nbtstat -R
This purges and reloads the name table cache
6. Type command:
net view \\MicrosoftFTP
You should see information on the site
7. Now map a drive (to share data)
net use * \\MicrosoftFTP\data /user:anonymous
8. All done. It will pass a drive letter for the connection



Basically you map to a listing in your hosts file😀

 

[aplefka]

Wait, so if I install that I can use that as an FTP and give out the password to the people I trust?

Edit: Nvm, you edited your post.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: aplefka
Wait, so if I install that I can use that as an FTP and give out the password to the people I trust?

Edit: Nvm, you edited your post.

If you setup a mapped ftp drive, then you can give the ftp address out to people and setup an account for them.

All you are doing is circumventing the ftp client or using a webbrowser. YOu still need to apply the common sense of using and FTP, whereby you don't give people root access😱

 

[aplefka]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: aplefka
Wait, so if I install that I can use that as an FTP and give out the password to the people I trust?

Edit: Nvm, you edited your post.

If you setup a mapped ftp drive, then you can give the ftp address out to people and setup an account for them.

All you are doing is circumventing the ftp client or using a webbrowser. YOu still need to apply the common sense of using and FTP, whereby you don't give people root access😱

I'd never give them root access. My goal would be to just create a drive or else share certain parts of one drive, so that I could use it as an FTP with unlimited space/bandwidth.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: aplefka

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: aplefka
Wait, so if I install that I can use that as an FTP and give out the password to the people I trust?

Edit: Nvm, you edited your post.

If you setup a mapped ftp drive, then you can give the ftp address out to people and setup an account for them.

All you are doing is circumventing the ftp client or using a webbrowser. YOu still need to apply the common sense of using and FTP, whereby you don't give people root access😱

I'd never give them root access. My goal would be to just create a drive or else share certain parts of one drive, so that I could use it as an FTP with unlimited space/bandwidth.

oh. That is somthign else. Just get bulletproof ftp and host your own server. Then use dyndns.org and a tracker program to setup dynamic dns. Finally using the ftp program, create a shar that will encompass a folder on a drive, or a whole drive.

Simple...err..sort of complicated liek that😀