Setting up more than one FTP advice

asakura797 · 18 Jan 2011 at 11:01

I want to set up more than one FTP to be available outside my LAN. I currently have one setup which is my NAS drive. Port 21 is open on my router for the NAS.

I recently came across an old server from work that no one wanted so I thought I'd make use of it.

I'm using Filezilla server to use it as a FTP server. I'm struggling to get connected to it outside the my LAN though.

Any help would be much appreciated guys

Sp00n · 18 Jan 2011 at 11:51

Set it to another port, possibly 22 if you don't run SSH for anything.

I'm assuming you only have one public IP.

asakura797 · 18 Jan 2011 at 14:44

Sp00n said:
Set it to another port, possibly 22 if you don't run SSH for anything.

I'm assuming you only have one public IP.

Yeah. So it's possible just assign a different port to the server to allow access over the internet?

morfmedia · 18 Jan 2011 at 18:05

Yup just allow the other ports. Else you could use symlinks or mount points etc to mount the servers shares within your current FTP setup. Saves opening more firewall holes etc.

tntcoder · 18 Jan 2011 at 18:42

Yep different ports and then forwarding those ports should be all you need.

As a side note, if you're running Linux servers then use SFTP rather than FTP.

Ev0 · 19 Jan 2011 at 11:34

tntcoder said:
As a side note, if you're running Linux servers then use SFTP rather than FTP.

Definitely, I wouldn't want to use plain FTP myself unless it was all being done on a trusted network.

Skidilliplop · 19 Jan 2011 at 14:51

I'd recomment using a port over 1024 just incase you want to use other services. Usually i go for 5021 or something on LAN. WAN facing the more obscure the better as port 20 and 21 open might attract unwanted attention.
Though never rely on security by obscurity alone, SFTP would be a good idea AS WELL AS obfuscating the well known port.