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
(828) 350-2415
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