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ok, I've been driving myself crazy. I just want to install an FTP server so I can use my linux computer as a server. I've tried using Samba and what not. I thought I installed an FTP server using the package manager, but I can't find anything. Can someone help me get an FTP server going?
ok, I've been driving myself crazy. I just want to install an FTP server so I can use my linux computer as a server. I've tried using Samba and what not. I thought I installed an FTP server using the package manager, but I can't find anything. Can someone help me get an FTP server going?
Ok I'm going to be nice and respond to this.
1. what distribution are you using
2. what ftp server are you trying to install
3. Samba is not an ftp server
Regarding 1 & 2 you most likely will either never get an answer to this type of post without these or worse get some really stern posts about how to post. People are not mind readers and are not going to start guessing at what is you have and are trying to install.
The FTP server I use is ProFTP. Check to see if your package manager has it in one of its repositories. Also, to ease the configuration of ProFTP, install the GProFTP package, which is a GTK+2 based configuration interface.
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