RE: FTP Server

[<admin-f () demoney net>]

I'd suggest just a simple switch.

As the win2k FTP service is inherently insecure, I have never used it,
but working primarily with security, I have found the perfect
combination is WARFTPD (free) and CuteFTP as the client (or command line
works great if no money need be spent).. Hope this helps

David DeMoney
Senior Systems / Security Engineer
Industrial Information Systems
Dallas, Texas

-----Original Message-----
From: D. Farris [mailto:dfarris () acekicker com] 
Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 12:35 PM
To: security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: FTP Server

Greetings,
We are forced to look for an alternate ftp solution and I was wondering
what
would be considered as reasonable solution.  We have recently
implemented a
SmoothWall firewall in front of our Win 2000 ftp servers and are
experiencing problems with ftp clients accessing the ftp site from
behind
NAT'd firewalls.  I have found instructions that suggest using an ftp
server
that allows the passive port configured to 2121, which of course you
cannot
do with Win2K ftp.  Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thank you in advance.
D. Farris