Transfering data from one location to another?

[Soapy Bones]

I've got a major problem here, I've got about 30-50 mp3s that I'm trying to get to a friend at college by the end of this week. She would just download them herself but her university has basically shut down all file sharing programs around campus. I've got Serve-U FTP running and she still cannot connect to me when i give her my IP address and also set up a log in for her.

Each time it says action has timed out or something to that effect, is there something we're doing wrong? Please help me out!!!

 

[imported_Paladin]

Try a pasv (passive) transfer.
Put them on a website so she can use http:// ....

 

[SpunkyJones]

Have you tried having some one at another location test to see if they can connect to the server? If they can't connect, then its time to troubleshoot your settings, your pc, and find out how your connected to the internet, for if your behind a router, you'll need to forward the appropriate ports.

 

[kautilya]

yes that works most of the time

 

[lightweight]

Are you behind a router that gives out internal IP addresses? If so you'll have to configure your router so that outside requests to port 21 (or whatever port you're running FTPd on) will go to the internal IP that the ftp server is on.

 

[Soapy Bones]

I'm using SBC DSL service and I have their 2WIRE wireless router that is hooked up wired to my computer through a switch/hub. I've got a webserver running but people outside of me still cannot get to my page... what the hell is wrong now

 

[imported_Paladin]

I just looked up the doc for the 2Wire home portal and I saw nothing about setting a pinhole or a DMZ or other way of exposing a fixed LAN IP to the WAN.

 

[Soapy Bones]

so what you're saying is, there's no way to accomplish this?

 

[imported_Paladin]

I'm a Tech -- there is always a way. Sometimes more costly than people are willing to pay.

Plan B (see above) was to place on a hosted website. At pages.sbcglobal.net if you have it; or a geocities page, or on a vanity website. (Websites are as low as $8/year for the name and under $10/mo for a fairly large site.)

Plan C would be to replace the 2Wire home portal with a modem tied to your server or a modem+router; either temporarily or permanently.

Plan D: e-mail them. Set her up on one of your 10 extra e-mail accounts (10MB message attachements should be enough for your MP3s.) (Your master account is a 2G box, I'm not sure of the sun-account box sizes.)

Plan E: I am not familiar with it, but I believe AIM and similar have file sharing capability.

Plan F: burn to a CD and snail-mail them.

 

[SNC]

Get someone with a site to loan you some space. FTP them there.