How do i set up ftp on my linux box

when i type ftp://localhost it prompts me for a login and i dont know what to login as

please help

You login as a valid user on your system. Usually by default any user with a valid shell account will be able to login thru FTP.

If you provide more details, what type of FTP server your running, distribution your running, etc, we might be of more help. Also try searching, there are tons of docs on FTP'ing on the net. I'm sure your questions have been asked and answered many of times.

...there are tons of docs on FTP'ing on the net, o yes but if I put "ftp" in google it tell me of thousand of sites to download, not how to do ftp in a domestic network

ftp is ftp. does not matter if doing so via WAN or LAN. its still the exact same.

if you are use ftp in a LAN setting you can still either use the host name or the IP of the FTP server you are attempting to connect to, just as you would if you were going though the WAN/www with it.

there are some great GUI based FTP programs out there that handle standard ftp and sftp for doing ssh ftp.

security is not a problem because I'm the only gui here but, how I can share files between my two Libranet 2.7 PCs?

to share files, just setup samba, or use ssh and sftp to transfer files between the 2 systems, or get a GUI sftp program.

with sftp you do not need to configure a true FTP server as ssh has it built in, thus the 's' in front of the ftp for the ssh ftp.

do a google serch for sftp gui and you should find something you can use.

there are GUI sftp programs for M$, Unix, Linux, BSD, MAC, and even as old as DOS ones out there.

ok so what i want to do is set up my computer as an ftp and an http server so that i can both host my site off of my computer and host a file server so that when i am at school i can transfer anything i want home.

it works when i login as my usual login but when i went to an M$ computer it told me that the folder i was entering was read only and then did nothing. but i am loged in as the owner of the directory that i wanted to browse

ok so i went to school today and tried it and typed my ftp address in and it never asked me for my login then a prompt popped up and told me that i didnt have permissions to acces that folder and then the page stopped loading

IMHO you would be better off useing ssh instead of ftp to transfer files.

http://winscp.sourceforge.net/eng/

that is what i use for all of my sftp from M$ to my linux system. it works perfect, and you do not have to have the security issues with an FTP server running on your apachie server (www server).

also looking int putty and doing CLI sftp, but that to me is very cumbersome. the link i provided is just like any standard FTP gui program for windows. almost exactly like cuteFTP. if you can click and drag, you can use that program.

well the reason that i want to use ftp is that i can use it from an M$ IE window by typing ftp://ipaddress -- would i beable to do this with ssh? Because the computers that i would be doing this on dont have an ssh program and i do not have the rights to download or install a program on them

then you dont need to be doing that kind of file transfer then do you...

*sarcasim off*

no you would not, at least not to my knowledge.

if you have to run an FTP server, make sure it is secure, change the default ports on it, and make damn sure your filewall is up and running with as much lockdown as you can afford. get your files and the FTP server on a seperate partition the the rest of the system too.

Can anyone tell me how to run the FTP program that comes
with RH Linux
Can anyone tell me how to run an editor in RH linux
I am a newbie and cannot find programs above on my server.
help!

IIRC RH9 comes default with wuFTP, there are loads of howto in google for that FTP server.

as for editors, there are loads of them like vi, gedit, etc..

i personaly use gedit as im a M$ guy and its more powerful then notepad, but simular enough to notepad that i was able to jump right into gedit with zero issues.

to get to gedit, just open a terminal, and type gedit, you can open a specific file by typeing:

gedit filename

example:

gedit /var/www/html/index.html

that will open up the default location for the apache URL index file.