kkhan
11-24-2002, 03:41 PM
Partitioning Scheme for FTP Server Setup
After failing to seutp PROFTP on my linux box, I am going to start from fresh now. This time I want to be sure from the beginnig and do it right, so I would greatly appreciate your direction and help. My goal is to use the box as an FTP server:
1. I am working on a project with several friends, one of them in France, Emailing large files are not possible. So we want a ftp server with one directory where all of us(3 users and may add one later) can login upload/download, if necessary users can create directories within the upload and download folder.
2. For doing the above, I need most of my 40GB harddrive to be used for FTP Use. Thus I, need a partitioning scheme for it. In the future I might use the same box as Email and webserver, and can lets say reserve about 10GB for these uses as well as some other future plans.
3. I have RH 7.3 which I tried on a small 4GB hard drive and failed to setup FTP, And now I have RH 8.0 and Mandrake 9.0, need suggestion on which one to use. I am fairly new with Linux.
4. As I am new to linux, I love to have Desktops like KDE but for my server application, if that is not necessary and if I recieve a good direction then I can handle some command line operations, Like using VI for text editing, etc.
Please Post your suggestions. I am waiting with my brand new harddrive and I want to do everything the right way this time.
Thanks,
After failing to seutp PROFTP on my linux box, I am going to start from fresh now. This time I want to be sure from the beginnig and do it right, so I would greatly appreciate your direction and help. My goal is to use the box as an FTP server:
1. I am working on a project with several friends, one of them in France, Emailing large files are not possible. So we want a ftp server with one directory where all of us(3 users and may add one later) can login upload/download, if necessary users can create directories within the upload and download folder.
2. For doing the above, I need most of my 40GB harddrive to be used for FTP Use. Thus I, need a partitioning scheme for it. In the future I might use the same box as Email and webserver, and can lets say reserve about 10GB for these uses as well as some other future plans.
3. I have RH 7.3 which I tried on a small 4GB hard drive and failed to setup FTP, And now I have RH 8.0 and Mandrake 9.0, need suggestion on which one to use. I am fairly new with Linux.
4. As I am new to linux, I love to have Desktops like KDE but for my server application, if that is not necessary and if I recieve a good direction then I can handle some command line operations, Like using VI for text editing, etc.
Please Post your suggestions. I am waiting with my brand new harddrive and I want to do everything the right way this time.
Thanks,