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