Hi all- A buddy of mine is throwing me a "small potato" and giving me 1/2 the cut. The job is setting up a small ftp server for a client. The requirements are (seemingly) next to nothing: A site where clients of the client can drop off files (under 20 Meg a day) and at the end of the day, generate a report of what got tranferred and move the transferred files off to a backup machine. I immediately thought of SSH and sftp, gave warnings of the insecurities of ftp etc - but was told that the end users will not touch the command line and will be using IE to conenct and drag -n- drop files to the ftp server. OOOkkkayyy... Ok, so I thought of using vsftp and making a blind, anonymous "drop off" ftp server... Connect as anonymous, drop files in an "incoming" location and that's it. The box will most likely be a walmart special x86 (uptime is not a concern from what he tells me a.k.a rebuild box if it goes south.). I have to choose a linux distro for this. I use gentoo day-to-day, so I thought of using that and vsftp (I also use this on my personal box). So - Gentoo, vsftpd, sshd for my remote access, on an el cheapo box, set customer expections up front, clue bat, what else am I going to need? Any advice, warnings, etc - This will be my first time doing something like this... :\ _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list