FileZilla – Your free home FTP Solution.
by amp on Sep.09, 2009, under Administration, Products, Reviews & Previews, Tutorials, Windows
Having an FTP and file server at your home is a very useful thing to have. By having a central point in your home where everything is stored and have the ability to share everything you need across your home network.
Now, if you are going to grab files from your home while you are away there are a few things you should really keep in mind before doing this.
- Having it exposed to the outside world will make you available to brute force attacks (mostly from Russia that I’ve noticed).
- Make sure you have your ports forwarded to the server. You can set this up in your routers administration panel > Port Forwarding.
- Do you have high bandwidth on your connection? I would recommend having at least 2Mb up (~240 kbps upload speed).
Today since we are working with windows we will be talking about FileZilla FTP Server. Why not IIS on Server 2k3? Keep Reading…
- IIS 6.0 seems to be pretty insecure unless the right measures are taken.
- Home FTP shouldn’t need to use an enterprise solution.
- IIS will leave the Administrator account open for attack!!
On the other hand, IIS is good for active directory integration and large networks (offices, buildings, etc).
FileZilla (claims) to soon be removing the “AUTOBAN” feature. Personally, this is something I really like but creates the possibility of a DoS attack since it will ban by IP Address after a specified number of failed login attempts. Although, on a home network, it doesn’t matter very much. In a big business, it does.
One of the other things I really like about FileZilla is it does NOT have pre-defined user names (like the ever-so important Administrator). Here you can see one of our logs when someone tried to brute force us.
Basically it comes down to some pretty easy steps.
- Install FileZilla FTP Server on your Server.
- Add users and shared folders.
- Specify ports to be used and speed limits if necessary.
- Forward those ports with your router.
Other than that, it runs in the background. If this is something you are interested I would highly suggest you give it a try.
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