Saving to Harddrive remotely

[HSK]

Asked by a friend :

How can a user save something onto their harddrive remotely. Lets say I go to Australia and I want to save photographs I took onto my PC in Canada. How can i go about doing this?

Will i have to make a server?
Or is there any stand alone program that allows this?

Anyhelp/ other alternatives would be appreciated.

[Abdali]

Re: Saving to Harddrive remotely

Originally posted by hskhan:
Asked by a friend :

How can a user save something onto their harddrive remotely. Lets say I go to Australia and I want to save photographs I took onto my PC in Canada. How can i go about doing this?

Will i have to make a server?
Or is there any stand alone program that allows this?

Anyhelp/ other alternatives would be appreciated.

FTP

[Hawkeye]

Re: Saving to Harddrive remotely

Originally posted by hskhan:
Asked by a friend :

How can a user save something onto their harddrive remotely. Lets say I go to Australia and I want to save photographs I took onto my PC in Canada. How can i go about doing this?

Will i have to make a server?
Or is there any stand alone program that allows this?
Anyhelp/ other alternatives would be appreciated.

Assuming you have a static IP Address for the home-drive, you can use Windows File Sharing and mount the drive remotely. However, this option must be used with caution and select a strong password.

Just enable file sharing, share the desired drive/directory and put access permissions. Then you can mount the drive remotely using

net use local_name: \\Remote_IP_Address\remote_share_name or you can use Map Network Drive option from the Windows explorer.

You can even mount the drive if you have a linux machine using mount -t smbfs command.


Good Luck!

[HSK]

How would I go about setting up a FTP for my computer? I've never done this before so all the help available would be appreciated.

I run Windows 98SE
I am on a wireless router
When I check my ip addy it says - 192.168.1.1 (but i know thats not it)

[Abdali]

Originally posted by hskhan:
How would I go about setting up a FTP for my computer? I've never done this before so all the help available would be appreciated.

I run Windows 98SE
I am on a wireless router
When I check my ip addy it says - 192.168.1.1 (but i know thats not it)

192.168.x.x won't work.

[HSK]

^ then what shall i do?

[Abdali]

Originally posted by hskhan:
^ then what shall i do?

Seems like your router is setup for (NAT) Network address translation. Its basically designed to isolate the inside addresses from the outside world. And it is also used if you have limited or illegal addresses in use so they will be isolated from the internet. In your case 192.168.x.x is not a valid address on the internet but a valid address on the intranet. So your choice of communications is one way only, which means you can initiate a session from the intranet to the internet but cannot do the other way round.

Get a valid IP address..

[Gizzy]

Use any programme like PCAnywhere...

[Najim]

Go to download.com & download any FTP program e.g warftp etc etc & install it on ur machine .... within that program create users with write access to specific directory ... & then load ur file from remote location to that directory.

http://download.com.com/3000-2165-890596.html?tag=lst-0-5

Good luck.

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Never ever open port 135-139 on ur windows based machine or NFS port on ur linux/unix based machines to public networks.

[Hawkeye]

Originally posted by Najim:


Never ever open port 135-139 on ur windows based machine or NFS port on ur linux/unix based machines to public networks.

100% right. Netbios ports should not be opened. And NFS !!! .... we started using AFS ... NFS is too risky to run even inside the campus ...

However the practical situation is that these ports are allready open because I'm sure they were never closed in the first place .... Keeping this in mind, I suggested a simple solution.

There can be more sophisticated solutions ... Like ftp, but then ftp will send passwords in clear text .... Atleast even with Win98 the password will be hashed ... So, there are pros and cons ...

Don't take the risk. You don't have a valid IP address in the first place. Use some online service, Yahoo photos gives you 30MB for free ... More space can be bought.

Good Luck !

[nos]

Well if you are setting up an FTP, then make sure that you implement a strong security policy and that the FTP server is fully patched. U don't want people to exploit the vulnerabilities in an unpatched machine And make sure u have a firewall running and that it is properly configured - i.e if u have a static IP for both the machines, then u can specify the IP address that have access to the FTP service. If u are familiar with Linux, then I suggest that u use RedHat Linux for setting up the FTP server. If u have problems configuring Linux then I suggest that u have a look at the RedHat customization guide. Also seek help from a knowledgeable person so as to verfity your security policy.

if O.S = Linux then
the vsftpd package must be installed in order to run the FTP server.
U have to configure the firewal (iptables) if u plan to run the FTP server. I suggest that u use the GNOME Lokkit tool to configure iptables. Type 'genome-lokkit' at the terminal.
Make sure u modify the 'hosts.allow' file in order to allow FTP service on the network.
That's all I could think of at the moment.
Hope this helps ..

P.S: Let us know about any progress, decisions that you've made

[HSK]

Configuring FTP sounds too difficult. It's going to give someone a headache trying to figure out how to config it. For a second i thought :

I'm going to experiment on FTP by disconnecting MY router. Lets see what happens. Although I think pcAnywhere would be easier in installing, FTP sounds like a sinch to use.

Thanks for the advice guys/gals(?) but FTP sounds like too much of a pain.

If not pcAnywhere, then Yahoo Photos instead. OR YahooGroups as it provides 512mb free.

[RT Wolf]

If I was you, I'd use FTP in conjunction with an address from www.dyndns.org, as in get an easy-to-remember address there and then setup one of those client programs that automatically updates the dyndns.org servers of a change of IP. I would also use an up-24-hours linux box. Good luck!

[TomSawyer]

best I doing is get litel usb dirve. for 128mb. put photo from camra to drive. when coming back home put on pc.

[Abdali]

Before you get FTP, pcAnywhere, NFS what ever what ever,,, you need a valid IP address. Once you get a vald IP address then there many options for file transfer.