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If you've been following the the Lifehacker Home Server Series ofarticles, you know how to do things like reach your home computerfrom anywhere in the world thanks to dynamic DNS services. Ginawrote about how to set up a personal home web server, but in myexperience the killer home server feature that hasn't been coveredto date is how to set up a personal FTP server at home. A home FTPserver is useful to anyone who wants to save and retrieve files on

their computer from anywhere. Ever forget a Word document onyour home desktop that you really need at work? Ever download aPDF that explains how to fix something at work and you realize toolate you left it at home that morning? If you have a personal FTPserver, and you can reach your computer from any place on earth,your files will never be captive on your hard drive at home again.

My home FTP server has saved me on many occasions. Sometimesit's when I'm on a business trip and need an extra file left at home,most often it's when I'm in the office and didn't remember to bringfiles I worked on at home. By far my best FTP story is from a few

years ago, when my wife was giving a reading at a wedding. Acouple hours before the ceremony, we realized we left the poemsitting in the tray of my printer at home. We sped to my nearbyoffice, I FTP'd to my desktop, got the Word doc downloaded andprinted it there, which we took to the wedding with time to spare.My home FTP server saved the day.

The main advantage of a home FTP server over a web server is thatyou can save files to the server, whereas with a web server, you canonly get files. The disadvantage of a home FTP server is that you

need an FTP client to connect to it, whereas web servers can beaccessed using a plain old web browser. However, many modernweb browsers support the FTP protocol. Instead of prefacing the URLwith http://, use ftp://. That said, most web browsers make crappyFTP clients. You should use a more fully-featured FTP client toconect to your server like SmartFTP or WS_FTP wherever possible.

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What you'll need:

1. A Windows PC2. An always-on broadband (DSL or cable) internet connection

Step 1: Download and install Serv-U FTP

Serv-U FTP is a nice windows FTP server app that has a simple touse interface. It's been around for years I've used it since 1997and it works flawlessly. The newest version adds more securitythrough SSL support and the best part of all is that the personalversion which allows for two FTP logins is completely free.

Now, don't get confused because they have several levels of pricingand several editions, but you can download a single package fromhere that includes all versions. Once installed, you will have a"corporate edition" that after thirty days will become the "personaledition." If you follow along this tutorial, you won't be using anyspecial features so you shouldn't see anything change once theapplication reverts to the free version. And by all means, if youdecide to use this on a machine at work, make your employer payfor a license, but as long as this is on your home computer, freepersonal use is fine.

Step 2: Complete setup and create a user login

After the initial setup is done, Serv-U should start the administratorand ask you to create a new user account. Start off by first puttingin the domain name you used to setup your dynamic DNS. Thenames I'm using in these figures are for demonstration purposes.(Click to enlarge image.)
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To keep your FTP server for your own use, be sure to disableAnonymous access by selecting "No" when asked.

When it asks for your Home Directory, it's probably best to just sayC:\ for your home windows machine. This will give you easy accessto any file on the main drive. Be sure you say No to locking yourown user in the home directory, otherwise you might not be allowedto switch to other drives.

Step 3: Grant proper rights to any drives you have

When you are done creating a new user account, start the FTPserver and the Serv-U Administrator application. Expand the

Domains tree to show your server, then the Users tree to find youraccount. With your user selected, click the Dir Access tab on theright pane, as shown. (Click to enlarge.)
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Highlight the drive letter and fill all the checkboxes on the right sideexcept for "Execute". This will give you total access to upload,download, delete, create, and make any directory changes as well.If you're nervous about your account having too much access, youcan probably get away with just read or read and write access formost things. Also be sure to add any other drives on your computer(I have a second hard drive with the letter E:\ on mine, as shown inthe figure).

Step 4: Be sure you have outside access to your new FTPserver

Like many of you reading this, I have a router/firewall/wirelessaccess point at home that shares my broadband connection withevery internet device in the house. Most router/firewall/wirelesspoints hand out internal IP addresses and keep your computerssafely away from outside access, but if you're running your own FTPor web server at home, you'll want to poke a hole in the firewall andmap port 21 to your home computer running Serv-U.

Here's a screenshot of my D-Link wireless router's advancedsettings page where I'm mapping port 21 to my home computer,which is known by the internal-only 192.168.1.1 IP address.


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For regular FTP connections, map port 21 to your computer, forsecure FTP connections, map port 990 to your computer on thenetwork (or just map both).

Step 5: Test it out

The last thing to do is to test out your FTP server by firing up a FTPclient and try connecting to your own server. Even though you areusing the very computer you are testing, if you try to FTP using theoutside address (your dynamic DNS name), it will be exactly likeconnecting from the outside.

Here's a partial screenshot of me using WS_FTP Pro. On the right

pane, I'm connected to my own FTP server (I called it "home" andsaved it to a profile) and I'm looking at my desktop files. (Click toenlarge.)
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Optional Super Bonus Step 6: Keep your FTP secure like FortKnox

The last step is optional, and depends on how you will access yourhome server's FTP. If you share a large corporate network or ever

want to access your home server from an open wireless accesspoint, by all means set Serv-U to allow secure (SSL) connections.This will encrypt your password and any files that are transmitted,keeping prying eyes from knowing how to access your home serveror what you did during your connections.

It's pretty easy to do in Serv-U. Bring up your Serv-U Administratorapplication, click your home server's domain name under theDomains area. On the right pane, there is a setting marked Securityand change the pull-down to Allow SSL/TLS and regular sessions(see below) or for even more security set it to Allow only SSL/TLSsessions. Then hit Apply to save this setting.

When you connect to it the first time, you might get a warningabout a bogus certificate provided by Serv-U. Just set your FTPprogram to always trust it and you won't see this warning again.


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That's it. Now you'll never forget a file at home because anything onyour home computer will be accessible from anywhere else onearth.

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As a web developer, here is what I've found to work best: Onecomputer at my house has become a dedicated Linux serverfor both web and ftp. Using Dynamic DNS (just like yourprevious article described) to access the public folders of mywebserver from anywhere, I can use tools like cvsWEB and

Bugzilla remotely, able to handle major issues immediately.Because the computer has 80GB drive space, I wanted toutilize it more. So, I began FTPing my personal archive -photos, music, documents, etc - to a protected section of theserver. Now that I have FTP setup, I just have to add the portto my routers port forwarding, and POOOF! It's an amazingway of doing it and saves ALOT on the costs of hostedsolution.

montag451 at 11:14 AM on 10/13/05

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How about a tutorial on running your own email server?

Nishi at 11:31 AM on 10/13/05

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I have set this up for one of my friend, works very well. I amgoing to set one up for myself pretty soon.

Utter Doulat 12:35 PM on 10/13/05

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I have been using Cerberus FTP Server(http://www.cerberusftp.com/) and DynDNS (client built intomy Netgear router); Cerberus is free for personal use andseems pretty similar to Serv-U. In addition to the types of useslisted in your article, I also use it with my BookmarkSyncronizer and Infolister Firefox extensions.

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I have a home linux server running as an ftp server using sftp

over an ssh connection, and I get TONS of intrusion attempts(scripts that try a bunch or random usernames, then try tocrack the password brute-force if they get a valid username).Your readers may want to think twice about making all theirhome data potentially available to everyone, withoutscrutinizing their security situation first. Personally, I use theftp server for temporary things, and a second server (with noports directly exposed) as a file server for everything else. If Ineed something unexpectedly that I didn't put on my ftpserver, I can get to my protected server a terminal connectionto the exposed server followed by another terminal connection

to the protected server. It's really more feasible with linuxthan windows, and requires two servers, but I do feel morecomfortable since most of my data is two passwords awayinstead of one.

Mike Panic at 09:46 PM on 10/13/05

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For what it's worth, unless you have a requirement to upload /download a large amount of data, something as simple asxmailharddrive will ork wonders. It allows you to use a gui toupload data to your existing 2GB Gmail account.

Rickat 11:27 AM on 10/14/05

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Being a pirate from way back and still using my FTP server ona daily basis for work, I've found that FastStream NETfileServer works a lot better than Serv-U, is more stable, uses lessmemory, and allows up to 5 connections in the Free mode. Itruns as a service too, so one less icon to clog up your systemtray.
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MizzouRob at 10:29 AM on 10/17/05

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Make sure your also check the terms of service with your ISPbefore proceeding. This maybe a violation. Otherwise if atfirst you can't get it to work right, check the port settings.Some ISP's block port 25 (the default FTP port). You may haveto change to something else (and I would adivse doing so forsecurity reasons too. Then you end up with a url somethinglike ftp://yourdomainname.or.ipaddress.here:025 or what everthe port number.

Matt Haughey at 11:02 AM on 10/17/05

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MizzouRob, while it's true many broadband serviceagreements make you say you won't run a server, theintention behind that is against running high traffic publicservers. We're talking about a single user system that is usedonly occasionally and like me, I suspect customers will neverbe hassled by their company about it. Also, FTP is most oftenseen on port 21, not port 25. Port 25 is for sending out email,SMTP traffic, and broadband companies often do in fact block25 to thwart customers that might send spam from their homeconnection. As for FTP security mentioned above, you will getport scanned on port 21 dozens of times a day but if youchoose a high security password you should be fine. A popularway to avoid most all intrusion attempts is to use a port otherthan 21 and one that's not often used for other services. Serv-U lets you pick any port you want to send FTP on and mostclients allow connections on any port as well.

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I would not recommend FastStream NETfile since the last timeI used that it came with the Cydoor spyware/adware. WhileServ-U is an excellent program I would recommend one of theopen source FTP Servers like Filezilla. Totally free, easy tosetup and configure and rock solid (no ads or spy/adware).

Another service that has saved my butt (more for backupsthen access) is Streamload. Not free but very reasonable.

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The only time I've ever been owned is when I stood up a linux

FTP server and opened a port for it through my firewall. Inaively assumed that by 2003, all the security holes wouldhave been worked out of the FTP server (I believe it waswuftpd). Anyway, turns out there was a buffer overrun holeand some kids were able to root the box.

This issue could have been prevented by tightening up myfirewall to only allow connections from my workplace. Mypassword was strong, but password choice is irrelevant for thistype of attack.

I agree with other readers when I suggest that you can avoidthese kinds of security exposures by using an external storagesystem, like XMail, or a portable hard drive.

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I agree with the security comments made by others and I haveconcerns. I am trying the VPN client to connect to my Linksysrouter then pass to the FTP server.

Now that these little NAS units are available for less than $95+ add a drive and they come with a built in FTP server, its a
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great way to add access at a low cost, if the security problemscan be addressed.

donnybahamaat 10:49 AM on 12/29/06

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Why are username/password text fields always used forsecurity? Using a server-side image map and somecgi/asp/php scripting, you can authenticate users via a seriesof clicks in a specific sequence. Such graphical authenticationtakes away the options for scripting as a means of brute-forcecracking.

mc_spanky_mcgeeat 04:30 PM on 01/11/07

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Re: Filezilla

I have to been trying to configure Filezilla FOREVER now. I am

giving up after spending too much time trying to search theforums for answers.

The guy's forums are crowded with posts by people who can'tfigure it out. I have concluded the problem is with thesoftware. Beware.

The_Cat_Ladyat 06:22 PM on 03/08/07

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Oh wow. This is so great! I was needing to do this and yoursite told me what I needed to know. Thanks! It waswonderfully easy to set up, but, but... now what?
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I'm using FlashGet as my FTP download program. How do I useit to "see" my system? I have also set up a "Friends" directoryso that I can share documents and photos with friends andfamily. How do I tell them how to log in?

It might tell you how to use it from the outside world, but Ididn't find it when I was looking. Can you help? Thank youvery much.

lava_2000at 08:22 PM on 04/11/07

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Being an IT professional, I have setup home FTP servers onboth Linux and Windows PCs. But I would never recommendthe solution to any average users. Yes, FTP server seems to beso simple, esp. with some good FTP server software. However,the pain of running, maintaining, monitoring, and patching theserver and OS is too much for a home users. With today'sflourish of hosted FTP server services, home users should signup their service instead of running their own FTP server athome. Hack, now even I am using DriveHQ's FTP server. Theyhave free service; and the premium service doesn't cost afortune. The conclusion: they save me time in maintaining anFTP server at home. I can turn off my PC as I like and neverworry that other people are using my FTP server; my friendsand co-workers can download files 100 times faster than myhome FTP server...

TheDei0niz3rat 07:58 PM on 05/01/07

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This has actually got me thinking and the other post aboutHamachi, for my situation I think Hamachi is probably the bestand its all encrypted already, so no security worries.

I have a file server at home with over 800gigs of "stuff" whichcould have been useful to get to on several occasions. Also a
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notoriously bad organizer, so if I had of had Hamachi like aLAN that I remember where I had a game that I hadn'tinstalled, but forgot to grab my cd key text file off my fileserver it would have saved the day. Not exactly a highimportance incidence, but I would have been happier to be

able to play the game most people were playing.

It seems to me though for most people Hamachi would be theway to go at least where someone is able to install things tothere computer, then setting up an ftp is the better choice,just make sure to make it secure and in a pinch you canalways use IE to connect to your ftp, which is most likely theonly way a person at work can if they can't install things andan ftp program isn't already installed.

So thats my take on it...

jerry12345at 12:58 AM on 09/13/07

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why do people need a home FTP server? Isn't it crazy? Yes,you setup an FTP server at home, so what? when your PC isoff, nobody can access it; and remember when peopledownload files from your FTP server, your DSL / Cable Modemlimits it to only 384K bps = 48KB/sec -- usually maybe only30KB/sec. And then you need to configure your firewall,router, anti-virus software, setup your local folder security oryou just wait for your PC to be hacked!

FTP is an aging protocol. If you need to share files, there aregreat online storage and sharing service available. I useDriveHQ.com FileManager software, works great. I can sharefiles with a group of people, I can create sub-accounts,

allocate storage, set share folder permission. The software isextremely faster as it supports compression; and more securethan FTP as it supports SSL and data encryption (encryptedfolder). It also has folder synchronization feature built-in.
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Aditiat 03:27 AM on 09/28/07

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I was interested in doing FTP to my office desktop computerfrom my PDA. That way, I can treat the Home PC hard-disk asan extension of my PDA disk (which is only 1 GB). I usepurplenova.com since it avoids the issues around static IP /Dynamic DNS or getting a static IP.

Sahel Khanat 07:51 AM on 10/10/07

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The first link in this article no longer works. This may be aneffect of having revamped your search engine.

InHisLifeat 05:03 AM on 11/15/07

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Great thots and works. Pls, I just need one clear thing first: Iwould require a public IP in order to be able to FTP my PC athome or even share a my files over the internet? This step isimportant for me as the ISP has given be a private IP throughthe DHCP server. Thanks

frankbeamerat 02:35 PM on 02/03/08

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I had the server working fine without security, but once add itand try to connect via Filezilla, I get the following error:
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"Response: 431 Unable to negotiate secure commandconnection." How do I fix this?

frankbeamerat 02:49 PM on 02/03/08

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edit above post: the error message I get is "Response: 522SSL/TLS lib refuses to initiate secure dataconnection"..basically, I connect, and see the "c" drive in theftp client, but then "directory listing" fails and I cannot doanything. What gives?

csoh83at 05:06 PM on 02/05/08

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Help!!! i cannot open server-U administraton. A pop upmessage is shown: SerUAdmin.exe - Illegal System DLLRelocation.

Detail Message: The system DLL user32.dll was relocated inmemory. The application will not run properly. The relocationoccureed because the DLLC:WINDOWS\system32\HHCTRL.OCX occupied an addressrange reserved for Windows system DLLs. The vendorsupplying the DLL should be contacted for a new DLL.

WHAT CAN I DO ?

dark_wolfat 07:13 PM on 02/12/08

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To repair user32.dll you can download a hotfix here[www.microsoft.com]
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smtareqat 06:13 AM on 02/24/08

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Please someone help me!

I have done everything shown here step by step to set up myhome ftp server, I also have got a domain name likebaborfhdu.homeftp.org from DynDNS against my IPaddress(which I obtained from a IP address provider site),thenI put this name in the step two shown here.But after all thingsdone, I can't FTP myself through aceFTP! It says "connectionaborted".

I think problem is with my IP address because when I open my"local area connection status" and then click the Support tab,it shows that my IP is a different one than that was shown bythe IP address provider sites.

I'm not a computer professional, so if anyone can provide medetail instructions about this regard it would be of great helpfor me.THANKS in advance.

csoh83at 02:44 PM on 03/18/08

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Thanks a lot ,dark_wolf. finally i got the serv-u installed.

backupreviewat 08:41 PM on 04/03/08

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For most users, setup a hosted FTP service is easier and reallygets the job done. Setup an FTP server at home or smallbusiness is very problematic and poses a lot of security issues.FTP protocol in itself is not quite secure. It is recommendedusing SFTP or FTP over SSL.

For a comparison of FTP services, please visit:[ftpreview.googlepages.com]

johnteraat 11:08 PM on 05/02/08

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For smtareq - make sure your ISP is assigning you a static IPaddress. Sysax FTP Server is another good FTP server that'sfree for personal use.
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