File Server help
 

Hi, I'm looking for a simple way to make debian 6 into a file server. someone suggested "SCP".

CPU: sempron 140 (downclocked to 1.8GHz)
RAM: 2GB 1333MHz
gigabit NIC/switch

well yes scp could be seen to make a machine a "file server". but that can mean anything at all. What do you actually want out of this system?

Well you can deploy nfs server or samba server
for configuration and deployment go to
http://linuxhomenetworking.com

I want it to host my files. I need to access it from my window machines from filezilla so i can dump my stuff over there. I've been waiting for this for a while, so i have several hundred gigabytes of stuff to export to the server.

so you want a dumping ground, not a formal service? scp will be fine.

RIGHT... now how do i set up SCP so that i can actually access my machine?

it's already running if ssh is. just use a suitable client and off you go.

got it working. it was as simple as downloading WinSCP. >_>

+ 1 sshfs
edit: i just realized you are using windows clients so sshfs mite be difficult (winscp is not a bad alternative).

You should be able to use Filezilla for this: just choose Protocol SFTP when choosing the server to connect to.

just tried to transfer about 5GB of files... i didn't even break 10MB/s. even it's not secure as a transfer method, i'd like something else as i'm not download from an offsite server.