Outside access

Mark Haney mhaney at ercbroadband.org
Wed Oct 11 19:24:44 UTC 2006


Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
>
>    What's the easiest, or maybe best way to have someone on the 
> outside (internet) have access to our internal file server so they can 
> put and retrieve files that are left for them?  While I can do a lot 
> of stuff here on our network, I don't know how tech savvy this other 
> person is, so I need a solution that's idiot proof (as much as 
> possible) and easy for them.
>
>    I originally thought of plain and simple FTP to one of our internet 
> servers (and thus not allowing access all the way to our internal file 
> server) but that would require people on both ends of the transaction 
> to have to deal with passwords and log ins and who knows what else.
>
>    Ideas/suggestions?
>
Personally I'd setup ssh and let them use WinSCP or some graphical 
SSH/SFTP client. Much more secure.


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Mark Haney
Sr. Systems Administrator
ERC Broadband
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