On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 12:18:32PM +0000, Paul Grenyer wrote:
Hi
I'm doing much the same on my Acer Revo, Ubuntu 9.10 server running apache, mysql and postgresql plus postfix as a mail server.
Cool!
I don't use ftp at all for transferring files (as in archiving, backup, etc.) I export a filesystem from the server so that other systems on the LAN can copy files back and forth pretty transparently.
Ok, that's something I could consider.
You can set up exports from the server so that only specified systems and/or users can read/write so it can be made reasonably secure given that (presumably) it's in a home LAN so physical security is reasonable.
It is, but I want to be able to access it from outside too, so I'd really like to get ftp working too.
Where 'outside' are you transferring files from? If it's from somewhere that you have ssh access into your server you can use scp or sftp.
Using NFS makes things *much* easier IMHO. Basically all you need to do is install nfs-kernel-server on the server machine.
Yep, very easy install. Thanks.