I started playing around with FileZilla Server on Windows a few months ago and was intrigued...that program's GUI makes it so simple to get an FTP up and running quickly and painlessly, without endlessly editing config files. My question is simple...is there a good ftp daemon that will let me admin through a GUI, similar to FileZilla? Thanks alot for the help.

i'd suggest using something like proftpd and use webmin to configure it. Don't be scared to use a console to set somethign up though... ftp servers aren't exactly rocket surgery.

I don't see the use of a GUI FTP server.
The only thing a GUI could be used within an FTP server installation would be to set it up, and SUSE 9.3 has not only plenty of GUIs for it... it has indeed *teh best evah(TM)* GUI based config system for just anything you will need: From FTP servers to NFS, Samba or even a full blown Apache2 with modules to your liking in only 5 minutes.

What you need is Yast2 and it's of course already there. Search for the Server setup icon, click and your on the way to success. Just fill in your config, tweak things to your liking and your done. It will even install all the software you need if it isn't already there.

Keep a close eye on Yast and if you can download the SUSE handbooks, specially the user handbook (if they aren't already in the install disks in PDF format). It will explain you how to do almost anything with YAST except how to get laid by a top-model.

SUSE is a bit different from the rest of the Linux distros, so many people will surely give you answers to problems in a way which can surely done in a more easy, fast and secure way using this masterpiece of software called YAST.

Note: yes, I am a real YAST fan I would like very much to have it included in Gentoo.

WOW...I didn't realize that YaST could be used to do things like that...absolutely awesome! Thank you both so much for your help!

I told you; YAST rox0rz the b0xorz.
It even has more tricks: There is a subsystem of YAST called YOU (you can enable it in KDE or Gnome's panels) which tells you if there are updates available. That's nothing special, of course. But the cool part is that it uses hot-patching of the binaries instead of replacing them as usual. The patch is a binary patch made with xdelta and only contains those parts which differs from one version to another amking it thus very small. This means that you can upgrade a whole 2.8 -3 GB system in about 30-45m using low bandwith (ISDN PPP connection), most of it used when downloading the kernel. I havn't done the math on a 2MB DSL, but it takes me around 3-5m to download a kernel (25-30MB), so I would say it won't take more than 15m to have a big system patched and updated. This means that you can set this to 'automatic update' and have a outstandingly secure system w/o having to waste time or effort.

IMHO SUSE is the best binary distro ever and YAST is what makes the difference.